Core
Apple Vision OCR
The built-in default for fast recognition, macOS-supplied language choices, text boxes, highlights, QR and barcode scanning, and accurately positioned searchable PDF text. It needs no separate model download.
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OwlOCR is an independent Mac app for turning screenshots, images, scans, and PDFs into text people can copy, edit, export, and search. This page collects current product details, official images, download links, and review contact information.
At a glance
Current product facts
- Platform
- macOS 13.3 or later
- Architecture
- Universal: Apple silicon and Intel
- Core
- Free, with no account required to start
- Pro annual
- $19.99/year
- Pro lifetime
- $49.99 once for that software version
- Developer
- JonLuca DeCaro
OwlOCR is available as a notarized direct download and through the Mac App Store. Purchases are channel-specific, and App Store pricing may be localized.
Ready-to-use description
About OwlOCR
OwlOCR 7 turns screenshots, images, scans, and PDFs into text you can copy, edit, export, and search. Apple Vision provides fast on-device recognition and positioned searchable PDFs. Optional OwlOCR Pro adds local OCR AI for difficult pages, batch and multipage tools, post-processing rules, larger multi-capture sessions, and a command-line interface. Finder Quick Actions bring Apple Vision OCR directly to selected files. OwlOCR runs on Apple silicon and Intel Macs with macOS 13.3 or later.
Recognition paths
Two local engines with different jobs
The distinction matters when describing OwlOCR: both paths run on the Mac, but they serve different workflows.
Pro
Optional local OCR AI
A downloaded model and local inference runtime provide a second reading for messy screenshots, low-quality scans, dense documents, and unusual layouts. It can be slower and returns clean page text; OwlOCR uses an Apple Vision layout pass when positioning that text in searchable PDF exports.
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OCR workspace
OwlOCR displays the source page beside editable recognized text, with capture, recognition, page, copy, and export controls in one Mac workspace.
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Local OCR AI settings
The OCR AI pane explains the on-device engine, model and runtime download, and the separate Apple Vision path.
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Post-processing rules
Pro users can build ordered find-and-replace rules and apply Smart Quotes after recognition.
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Free Core, optional Pro
Core
Free
Everyday Apple Vision OCR for screenshots, images, and the current document page, plus searchable PDF export and single-file Finder workflows. No account is required to start.
Pro annual
$19.99/year
Includes local OCR AI, OCR All and batch workflows, post-processing rules, 3–50 combined screen captures, multiple-file Finder processing, and the CLI while the subscription is active.
Pro lifetime
$49.99 once
Lifetime Pro access for the purchased software version. Website purchases restore by email; Mac App Store purchases restore with the purchaser’s Apple ID.
Reviewers can test Core immediately or email support@owlocr.com for access questions, to request a Pro review license, or for technical background.
Architecture
A modern app with native Mac OCR helpers
- Electron and React own the workspace, settings, menu bar, and document state.
- Focused Swift helpers use Apple Vision, PDFKit, AppKit, and Core Graphics for Mac OCR, capture, rendering, Continuity import, and PDF export.
- Three native Swift Action Extensions provide the Finder Quick Actions independently of the main window.
- Optional OCR AI uses downloaded model files with a native local inference runtime.
- The distributed app is Universal for arm64 and x86_64 Macs.
Privacy
Documents stay on the Mac
OwlOCR’s current Apple Vision and OCR AI modes do not upload files, screenshots, clipboard content, or recognized text for OCR, and OwlOCR does not use that content to train AI models.
Model and runtime downloads, licensing, purchases, and updates make ordinary network requests, but processed documents are not sent with them. Direct purchases use Stripe; Mac App Store purchases use Apple and RevenueCat. Diagnostic logs remain local unless the user chooses to attach and send them.
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