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 your images or files are sent to third-party services in the cloud as most applications do. This also means that the application will function behind corporate firewalls and in places without internet connectivity.



Only English language is supported with Language Recognition that may improve the results. If the application is used for documents with other languages, you should turn off Language Recognition. Please note that even in that case only the English alphabet is supported, e.g. German umlauts are not recognized. (Language support expansion coming in late 2020).



Please note that this application does not preserve the formatting of rich text like font size, bolding, italics, etc. The output of the OCR function is plain text that you may copy and then paste to your target use or application. You can also export to a PDF file that includes the OCR results and an invisible text layer. The OCR results can be corrected in-app before export.



Features:

- New in v3.4: Disable sound of the screenshot function, take up 20 screenshots with the multiscreenshot function, notifications when process completed.

- New in v3.3: Export searchable PDF files (remember to run OCR before exporting)!

- New in v3: Support for opening multiple images and/or PDFs for batch OCR jobs! Improved multithreading OCR performance in larger batches. Decreased peak memory usage.

- New in v2: Support for taking a photo or scan of document with your iPhone or iPad device (please note requirements: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT209037)

- High quality text recognition performed on-device securely

- Input filetypes supported: PDF, GIF, PNG, JPEG, JPG.

- OCR page-by-page or batch OCR for a directory or a group of files

- Grab a screen area for instant OCR and result copied to clipboard

- 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

- 64-bit: macOS Catalina fully supported

- B&W and Color options for Menu Bar icon

- Customize if you want OwlOCR just in the menu or just in the dock, or maybe both

- Dark Mode supported



Pro Mode

- 3 week free trial automatically starting upon installation (no sign-up required!)

- After 3 weeks Pro mode can be extended with a lifetime license purchase



Features exclusively in Pro mode:

- Support for multipage PDFs and doing batch OCR on multiple documents at once

- Take up to 20 screenshots with multi-screenshot feature