This product was not featured by Product Hunt yet. It will not be visible on their landing page and won't be ranked (cannot win product of the day regardless of upvotes).
OnDevice OCR Pro is my response to the current trend in software that says everything has to be subscription- and cloud-based.
Thanks to the Vision Framework and Apple Silicon, you really have everything you need to make your PDFs and documents searchable locally and privately, without any compromise. On the contrary actually:
Features:
No data collection.
Batch Processing: Support for PDFs and almost all image formats.
13 Languages: Recognizes English, Chinese, Russian, German, Spanish, French, Japanese, and more (excluding handwritten text).
Folder Monitoring (Hot folder): Monitors a selected folder and automatically processes newly added documents in the background, even when the app is closed.
Shortcuts Integration: Create custom workflows and automations—also controllable via AI agents.
Finder Extension: OCR your files directly from the macOS context menu (right-click).
Auto-Orientation: Automatically detects text direction and rotates incorrectly oriented pages.
Text Export: Save extracted text directly to `.txt` files.
Intelligent filter: Detects and skips "digital" (vector) PDFs such as invoices.
Scan Optimization: Improves readability through brightness, contrast, sharpness, shadow reduction, and optional perspective correction.
It's a small one-time purchase, but you can test the app for free with a watermark.
honestly offline OCR is super underrated so this is cool. one thing though, would be great if you could batch rename the output files based on detected text or page content, like pulling the first line as the filename. would save a lot of manual cleanup when scanning big batches of old documents.
About OnDevice OCR Pro on Product Hunt
“Privacy-focused OCR automation for Mac”
OnDevice OCR Pro was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 0 upvotes and 3 comments, placing #70 on the daily leaderboard. Make your PDFs, scans, and documents searchable with OnDevice OCR Pro. Feature-rich, 100% offline and without a subscription.
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Christian Schroder
Hi everyone,
OnDevice OCR Pro is my response to the current trend in software that says everything has to be subscription- and cloud-based.
Thanks to the Vision Framework and Apple Silicon, you really have everything you need to make your PDFs and documents searchable locally and privately, without any compromise. On the contrary actually:
Features:
No data collection.
Batch Processing: Support for PDFs and almost all image formats.
13 Languages: Recognizes English, Chinese, Russian, German, Spanish, French, Japanese, and more (excluding handwritten text).
Folder Monitoring (Hot folder): Monitors a selected folder and automatically processes newly added documents in the background, even when the app is closed.
Shortcuts Integration: Create custom workflows and automations—also controllable via AI agents.
Finder Extension: OCR your files directly from the macOS context menu (right-click).
Auto-Orientation: Automatically detects text direction and rotates incorrectly oriented pages.
Text Export: Save extracted text directly to `.txt` files.
Intelligent filter: Detects and skips "digital" (vector) PDFs such as invoices.
Scan Optimization: Improves readability through brightness, contrast, sharpness, shadow reduction, and optional perspective correction.
It's a small one-time purchase, but you can test the app for free with a watermark.
Mac App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6756887557
Product Hunt users get 20% discount with code "PRODUCTHUNT20" (redemption link)until July 17th.