mac-ocr Runs Local OCR and Searchable PDF Creation via Apple Vision
June 18, 2026
mac-ocr is a macOS CLI tool that uses Apple's on-device Vision framework to extract text from images and PDFs and output searchable PDFs, with no cloud dependency. Useful for privacy-sensitive document processing pipelines on Apple hardware.
HOW THIS AFFECTS YOU
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builderYou can integrate mac-ocr into local document pipelines on Apple Silicon without sending data to a cloud OCR service.