Screenshots & OCR
Capture a region or window and control local text extraction.
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Capture the relevant part
Use the configured region or focused-window capture shortcut. The result becomes an image attachment in the target draft, where you can preview or remove it before sending.
Capture is routed to the last draft you deliberately opened. Starting a capture fixes its destination, so an automatically displayed window does not silently redirect the result.
Choose local text extraction
OCR settings control whether text extraction runs. Apple Vision processes images and rendered PDF pages on your Mac. Turning OCR off prevents extraction; it does not mean the image contains no text.
Match extraction to the Assistant
An Assistant’s image handling preference can use automatic behavior, image and text, text only, or images without OCR. Actual delivery still depends on its capabilities.
OCR may misread layout, tables, names, or commands. Review important extracted text. Recognized links and commands are reference data, not instructions to open or execute them.