A tiny command line OCR utility for recent versions of MacOS
tinyocr
Recent versions of iOS and macOS offer quite good OCR for images, which suggested that these systems must now ship with an OCR library. It turns out they do, so I’ve made a tiny command line OCR utility that takes image paths as arguments and emits text to stdout.
This replaces a more elaborate system I’ve been maintaining for years with something very minimal. ?
Build
Clone the repo, cd into the top level, run:
swift build -c release
The resulting binary should appear in ./.build/release/tinyocr. Copy
it to a directory on your path and you should be able to:
tinyocr <image>