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OnDevice OCR Pro
Privacy-focused OCR automation for Mac
6 followers
Privacy-focused OCR automation for Mac
6 followers
Make your PDFs, scans, and documents searchable with OnDevice OCR Pro. Feature-rich, 100% offline and without a subscription.
Hi everyone,
OnDevice OCR Pro is my response to the current trend in software that says everything has to be subscription- and cloud-based.
Thanks to the Vision Framework and Apple Silicon, you really have everything you need to make your PDFs and documents searchable locally and privately, without any compromise. On the contrary actually:
Features:
No data collection.
Batch Processing: Support for PDFs and almost all image formats.
13 Languages: Recognizes English, Chinese, Russian, German, Spanish, French, Japanese, and more (excluding handwritten text).
Folder Monitoring (Hot folder): Monitors a selected folder and automatically processes newly added documents in the background, even when the app is closed.
Shortcuts Integration: Create custom workflows and automations—also controllable via AI agents.
Finder Extension: OCR your files directly from the macOS context menu (right-click).
Auto-Orientation: Automatically detects text direction and rotates incorrectly oriented pages.
Text Export: Save extracted text directly to `.txt` files.
Intelligent filter: Detects and skips "digital" (vector) PDFs such as invoices.
Scan Optimization: Improves readability through brightness, contrast, sharpness, shadow reduction, and optional perspective correction.
It's a small one-time purchase, but you can test the app for free with a watermark.
Mac App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6756887557
Product Hunt users get 20% discount with code "PRODUCTHUNT20" (redemption link)until July 17th.
honestly offline OCR is super underrated so this is cool. one thing though, would be great if you could batch rename the output files based on detected text or page content, like pulling the first line as the filename. would save a lot of manual cleanup when scanning big batches of old documents.
@azizamanwlgf Hi, thanks for your comment! That's definitely in the plans; I hope the improved Foundation Models Apple is introducing with macOS 27 will be capable of handling this. I've already experimented with small, local LLMs, but unfortunately the results were too unreliable to implement as a feature! But it's on my radar for sure!