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OCR for Mac

Open-source screen OCR tool that copies the text or QR code content of any area selected with a keyboard shortcut, offline with Apple Vision.

By geragarazagh. Free and open source, MIT licence.

Get it with OpenDMG View source on GitHub

OCR at a glance

Version
0.3
Released
9 November 2026
Download size
1.5 MB
Works on
Apple silicon and Intel
Licence
MIT
Category
Productivity
Developer
geragarazagh
GitHub stars
5

About OCR

OCR (Optical Character Recognition): free, open source screen OCR app for Mac. Select any area of the screen with a keyboard shortcut, and its text or QR code goes to the clipboard. Offline, on Apple’s Vision, in all languages Vision has on the installed macOS. Native Swift, Apple silicon, macOS 13+.

Screenshots

OCR screenshot 1

How to install OCR on a Mac

  1. Get OpenDMG. It is a free app store for open source Mac apps. Download OpenDMG.
  2. Search for OCR and press Get. OpenDMG downloads version 0.3 from geragarazagh's own GitHub release.
  3. Open it. The download is checked against its SHA-256 fingerprint and its signature is checked on your Mac before it lands in Applications.

Updates to OCR show up in OpenDMG and install with one button. No account is needed.

Prefer to do it by hand? The developer's file is on GitHub: OCR.dmg (1.5 MB).

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