OwlOCR allows grabbing a part of the screen and having any text in that area be instantaneously recognized and copied to clipboard. Additionally, the application supports recognizing text from PDF files, images and converting the contents to plain text. All conversion is done securely on-device – none of your images or files are sent to third-party services in the cloud.

The output of OwlOCR is plain text that you may copy and then paste to your target use or application. Exporting a PDF file with the text recognition results as an invisible text layer is also supported.

Features:

• Grab a screen area for instant OCR and result copied to clipboard
• High quality text recognition performed on-device securely
• Run text recognition page-by-page or for a directory or a group of files
• Take a photo or scan of document with your iPhone or iPad device
• Export searchable PDF files
• Create searchable PDF, extract text to clipboard or plain text right from Finder using OwlOCR Finder Extensions
• Scan barcodes and QR and automatically open links in browser (NEW!)
• Customize OwlOCR to behave as a menu bar- or dock app
• Wrap naturally or as in input
• Custom dictionary for industry-specific lingo
• Choose line spacing 1.0-4.0
• Automatically start on MacOS launch (option)
• Input filetypes supported: PDF, GIF, PNG, JPEG, JPG.
• Keyboard shortcut Cmd + F1 (configurable) for a single screen area OCR even when OwlOCR is in the background
• Keyboard shortcut Cmd + F2 (configurable) for multiple screen area captures
• macOS Catalina or newer required
• Language support running under MacOS 11.0: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese.
• Language support under MacOS 10.15 limited to English only.
• Dark Mode supported, B&W/Color options for Menu Bar icon
• Runs natively on Apple M1 and Intel processors