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What features are essential in your OCR workflow?

I am a Mac developer of an OCR app, and I'd be interested to know which features—aside from text recognition itself—you need most in your daily workflows (pdf/A, hot folders, document splitting etc.) And is there anything you rarely use, but that would be a dealbreaker if missing?

Besides: If you have a specific edge case that no other app solves properly, feel free to describe it as well.

Thanks in advance!

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u/Richard_309 — 3 days ago
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Looking for beta testers for a business OCR app

Hey everyone, I am currently in the late stages of developing a business OCR app (Apple Vision framework-based) with features such as multiple hot folders, PDF/A-2b export, custom settings export, QR-code page break detection, Apple Shortcuts integration and more. It will take a few more weeks, but if somebody is currently using Adobe or ABBYY or a similar product and would be interested in testing it, feel free to send me a message. Best regards

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u/Richard_309 — 14 days ago
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OnDevice OCR Pro, an offline text recognition & automation software

Hi everyone, I am the developer of a relatively new text recognition software for the Mac, OnDevice OCR Pro.

The app is built in Swift/SwiftUI, and OCR processing is performed locally using Apple's Vision framework with hardware acceleration from Apple Silicon. It's a one-time purchase with some features that may be interesting for power users:

- No data collection
- Batch processing (PDFs and almost all image formats are supported)
- Folder monitoring (hot folder) that processes new files in the background, even when the app is closed
- Apple Shortcuts integration that lets you create custom workflows and automations—also controllable via AI agents
- Auto-orientation that detects text direction and rotates incorrectly oriented pages
- Finder integration: you can process documents with just a right-click
- A smart filter that detects already searchable (vector) PDFs like invoices and skips them
- Scan optimization and perspective correction

If you're interested, you can download it for free and try all features, with a watermark applied to the output. The app is a one-time purchase of $12.99.

Please let me know if you have questions, feedback, or just want to tell me which features are important to you that my app might be missing.

Best regards, Christian
Website: ondeviceocr.com
App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6756887557

u/Richard_309 — 27 days ago
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I made privacy focused OCR app

Problem

For a personal project I needed an app to process hundreds of pages with OCR and couldn't find an affordable, quality app without subscription.

The app is NOT for handwritten documents !

Comparison

Compared to Adobe Acrobat Pro and ABBYY FineReader, there is no subscription and your documents are never sent to a cloud service. All text recognition is done locally on your Mac via Apples newest Vision framework. The app does not require internet and doesn't collect any data.

Pricing

You can download it for free and test all features with a watermark. The full version (lifetime) is a one-time purchase of $4.99.

Mac App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ondevice-ocr-pro/id6756887557

All Features

-support for most (not handwritten!) languages, including English, Chinese, Russian, German, Spanish, French, Japanese etc pp.

-folder monitoring (hotfolder)

-batch processing

-automatic orientation correction

-support for AI agents such Claude, so they can control it even when the app is closed

-image enhancement of scanned documents

-text extraction

-intelligent filter for "digital" (vector) PDFs

Full disclosure: I'm the developer. Happy to answer any questions.

u/Richard_309 — 2 months ago