This handy little utility lets you use text recognition to instantly capture anything on the Mac screen. Digitizes your scans and files to create searchable PDFs. Everything is done on your Mac to ensure full privacy and performance.

Most features are free!

Grab any text on the screen, convert images or scans to searchable PDFs, open QR-coded URLs with a few clicks, and for the first time in OwlOCR 5 — use a command line interface to integrate OwlOCR into other process workflows!

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.