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privatenumber/mac-ocr

mac-ocr is an MIT-licensed macOS CLI that runs Apple's Vision framework locally to extract text from images and PDFs, stream JSONL page output, and generate searchable PDFs without uploading documents to a cloud OCR service.

Score7.9
Popularity19.0
Riskconditional
TierSilver
Score breakdown
Usefulness8.0
Novelty6.0
Momentum7.0
Maturity6.1
Open-source/build8.4
Evidence7.2
Workflow potential9.4
Setup ease8.8

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Why it matters

Useful for local AI and document-heavy workflows where you want OCR and searchable PDFs without spending vision-token costs or sending files off the machine.

Who should use it

local AI usersresearchers scanning PDFsdevelopers building document pipelinespeople cleaning archival documents

Who should skip it

Skip if the source link, docs, or setup requirements do not match your workflow.

Risk explanation

It reads local images and PDFs that may contain private data, so users should keep sensitive files on trusted machines and verify downstream automations before batch processing.

Evidence links

Closest alternatives / related signals

ocrlocal-aipdfvisiondocument-workflow