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Work · February 26, 2020

OwlOCR 1.0

Snappy, secure, on-device OCR for MacOS

OwlOCR 1.0 launched on February 26, 2020 with 71 votes, #515 of 3,162 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 6 years on.

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What it does

OwlOCR offers simple optical character recognition of text in PDF files, images or on-screen and converts that to plain text. All conversion is done securely on-device - none of the data are sent to third-party services in the cloud as most applications do.

OwlOCR is Mac OCR software for screenshots, scans, and searchable PDFs. Start free with on-device Apple Vision OCR; upgrade for local AI and batch tools.

Select any screen region, run OCR, and send the recognized text to your clipboard. Keep the visible page and add an invisible text layer for search, selection, and copy. Start with on-device Apple Vision OCR, then choose Pro only if you need advanced workflows. Keep using Apple Vision for fast OCR with text boxes, highlights, and searchable PDF export. Switch to OCR AI when you want a second pass on noisy screenshots, low-quality scans, unusual layouts, or dense documents. Download the OCR AI model and runtime from Settings, then run hard OCR jobs locally. The built-in engine remains the best default for most screenshots, PDFs, and language-aware OCR. Export PDFs with an invisible OCR text…from owlocr.com

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