Some pages won't let you highlight anything: a scan of a bill, a locked PDF, a screenshot a client emailed you. Press ⌥+Shift+C, drag a box over it, and Hey Eduardo reads it on your Mac and explains what it says.
The file in this recording is an image with no text in it at all — the kind of scan that usually means retyping figures by hand.
This hospital bill is a scan. It's just a picture, so there's no text to select.
Press Option-Shift-C, and drag a box over the part you need.
Apple's on-device text recognition reads the scan, and Hey Eduardo explains it.
It explains the bill in plain words.
Then ask for the exact amount and the due date.
$1,284.50, due October 1.
So why not upload it to ChatGPT or Claude? A medical bill carries your name, your account number, and the care you received.
Upload it, and all of that goes to another company's servers. Here, the scan is read and answered on your Mac. Nothing is sent anywhere.
Hey Eduardo. heyeduardo.app
The screen dims and the pointer turns into a crosshair. Every shortcut is listed in the menu bar too, so there is nothing to memorize.
Take just the part you care about — one column of a bill, one clause of a contract, the paragraph in the middle of a screenshot.
The text is recognized on your Mac, then explained in the panel. Ask follow-ups, or press Listen and have it read back to you.
Ask ChatGPT or Gemini to read a scan and you upload the image itself — the member ID, the account number, the patient name, all of it — to a company that keeps it under its own retention policy.
Hey Eduardo uses the text recognizer Apple already ships in macOS. The capture goes straight into memory, is never written to disk, and in local mode the recognized words are read by a model running on your own chip. There is no server in the loop to hold the picture.
That difference decides whether a scanned explanation of benefits, a client's tax notice or a screenshot of a case file can legally go anywhere near an AI tool at all.
Handwriting is unreliable. Faint faxes and tight columns of figures can lose a character. Check amounts and dates against the page before acting on them.
It needs Screen Recording permission, because macOS requires that of any app that reads the screen. It runs on Apple Silicon Macs, macOS 15 or later.
No. The capture goes straight to Apple's on-device text recognizer in memory, and is never written to disk. In local mode the words are read by the model on your Mac.
Yes — that is what the shortcut is for. Ask about a scan directly and Hey Eduardo tells you the page has no text in it, then points you here.
Screen Recording, in System Settings → Privacy & Security. You can skip it at setup and turn it on later; everything else works without it.
Yes. The panel has a copy button, and you can export a session to a .txt or .md file.
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