

OnDevice OCR Pro
OnDevice OCR Pro lets you automate your text recognition right on your Mac.
Cost / License
- Freemium (Pay once)
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac
Features
Properties
- Privacy focused
Features
- OCR
- Works Offline
- PDF OCR
- Screenshot OCR
Apple Shortcuts Integration
OnDevice OCR Pro News & Activities
Recent activities
- chr-rich309 added OnDevice OCR Pro
- chr-rich309 added OnDevice OCR Pro as alternative to ABBYY FineReader PDF, Tesseract, Adobe Acrobat Reader and OCRmyPDF
OnDevice OCR Pro information
What is OnDevice OCR Pro?
Features:
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Privacy by Design: Processing runs locally on your Mac; no data is collected or transmitted.
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Apple Vision OCR: Uses the native Apple Vision framework for precise text recognition.
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Folder Monitoring (Hotfolder): Monitors a specified folder and automatically processes newly added documents in the background.
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Apple Shortcuts Support: Integrates seamlessly with the macOS Shortcuts app to create custom workflows and automations—also controllable via AI agents.
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Extensive Language Support: Recognizes text in 13 languages, including English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Chinese (Traditional/Simplified), Japanese (Yokogaki), Korean, Vietnamese, Italian, Dutch, Turkish, and Russian.
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Batch Processing: Effortlessly processes even large volumes of PDFs.
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Smart Filter: Detects searchable digital PDFs—such as invoices—and skips them if desired.
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Finder Extension: Allows you to process files directly from the macOS context menu (right-click)—even without opening the main application.
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Automatic Orientation: Detects the text direction and automatically rotates incorrectly oriented pages.
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Text Extraction: Allows you to export the recognized text as a plain text file (.txt).
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Scan Optimization: Improves readability through brightness, contrast, sharpness, shadow reduction, and optional perspective correction for documents photographed at an angle.
Applications:
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Confidential Data: Suitable for professionals with high security requirements, such as lawyers and doctors.
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Archiving: Digitization of documents, invoices, and receipts.
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Research & Education: Fast digitization of literature for students and researchers.





