OwlOCR 1.0
Snappy, secure, on-device OCR for MacOS
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Tommi Urtti

OwlOCR 4.0 - Near instant text recognition for Mac!

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This handy little utility lets you use text recognition to instantly capture anything on the Mac screen. Digitizes your scans and files to create searchable PDFs. Everything is done on your Mac to ensure full privacy and performance.
Most features are free!

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Tommi Urtti
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Oh wow, thanks for the love everyone, just signed in after taking some time off from online and found all this going on here, this is great!
Xiang Ji
Great product. Exactly what I wish I had when reading texts contained in images e.g. comic/manga. I see that it has already added support for multiple new languages (including Chinese) in Big Sur. I wonder if it would be possible to support more languages in the future such as Japanese, Korean, Russian (I would imagine there are good OCR engines out there for those languages as well).
Tommi Urtti
Maker
@hackerxiang Thanks Xiang! Yes, I bet you're right. By substituting the OCR engine language support could be expanded further. It might be a bit tricky though, primarily since you'd first need to understand what language is in there and then use the best engine for that language. It's possible, but might get trickier than initially thinking. Good idea though!
Michael The Geek 
Congrats! it look very nice. I use it.
Tommi Urtti
Maker
@michaelthegeek thanks Michael! Great to hear from an 🍎 enthusiast!
Haran Rajkumar
I find OwlOCR 4.0 to be super helpful. I use it in two scenarios, to save text from videos/live meetings and to copy text from websites that don't allow you to select text.
Daniel
Hi there. Congrats on creating such a great tool. I only have the question if it would be possible to make it more RAM efficient? After automatically starting it only requires a low amount of RAM (~15-30MB) however as soon as I've done one screenshot it requires more. That itself shouldn't be the problem except that it hovers at that level from then on. (~150MB) Maybe you can build a timer inside the program that puts it back to the state in which it first started in, after a certain amount of time since the screenshot was taken. Best regards and thanks again for this amazing tool!
Tommi Urtti
Maker
@itsdaniel Thank you! I'll put that in the backlog. I've been adding quite a few features over the last 6 months so it should be a good time to do a performance related update. Wiping the screenshot with a timer might be unexpected to some users, if they'd rely on it being there... could be an option I suppose.
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