OCRKit uses OCR (Optical Character Recognition) technology to recognize the text in the graphic, which is particularly useful for PDFs received via e-mail, created by DTP, office applications, or with a scanner or copier. Create searchable PDFs, RTF, HTML, or Unicode plain text simply by dragging a document on the OCRKit application or Dock icon.
Searchable Text. OCRKit is a simple and streamlined Mac application, that features the advanced Optical Character Recognition technology, allowing you to convert scanned or printed documents into searchable and
Searchable Text. OCRKit is a simple and streamlined Mac application, that features the advanced Optical Character Recognition technology, allowing you to convert scanned or printed documents into searchable and
What's New
Version 2.4.1:
- Added support for processing files via command line arguments.
- Improved recognition and stability.
Requirements
Intel, OS X 10.5 or later
Intel, OS X 10.5 or later
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| Downloads:22,052 |
| Version Downloads:655 |
| Type:Business : Word Processing |
| License:Demo |
| Date:22 Feb 2014 |
| Platform:Intel 64 / Intel 32 / OS X |
| Price: $49.99 |
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OCRKit uses OCR (Optical Character Recognition) technology to recognize the text in the graphic, which is particularly useful for PDFs received via e-mail, created by DTP, office applications, or with a scanner or copier. Create searchable PDFs, RTF, HTML, or Unicode plain text simply by dragging a document on the OCRKit application or Dock icon.
Searchable Text. OCRKit is a simple and streamlined Mac application, that features the advanced Optical Character Recognition technology, allowing you to convert scanned or printed documents into searchable and editable text. It can be a great help for everyone, home users, corporate users at work and educational institutions.
You can use the copy and paste tools on the document, instead of retyping everything and correct it. It increases the efficiency and effectiveness of office workflow. OCRKit is fast and accurate, ensuring the document's content remains intact while saving time as well.
OCR Engine
Automatic rotation. The automatic rotation determines the orientation of each scanned sheet automatically, therefore avoiding the need to manually pre-sort a stack before you scan. As the automatic rotation works independently from the OCR mechanism, the feature also helps to improve OCR results.
Multi-Page Documents. There are no limits to the number of pages of the PDF or TIFF documents. There are also no limits to the number of pages that can be processed each day. Usage is very simple: just drag a document into the app's Dock icon, or open it with the OCRKit application (Open With > ).
AppleScript Support. OCRKit includes AppleScript support, so professional users can use it for programmed batch conversion.
Searchable Text. OCRKit is a simple and streamlined Mac application, that features the advanced Optical Character Recognition technology, allowing you to convert scanned or printed documents into searchable and editable text. It can be a great help for everyone, home users, corporate users at work and educational institutions.
You can use the copy and paste tools on the document, instead of retyping everything and correct it. It increases the efficiency and effectiveness of office workflow. OCRKit is fast and accurate, ensuring the document's content remains intact while saving time as well.
OCR Engine
- Text recognition accuracy
- Instant content search ability
- PDF compression
- High-speed conversion
- Stability and performance
Automatic rotation. The automatic rotation determines the orientation of each scanned sheet automatically, therefore avoiding the need to manually pre-sort a stack before you scan. As the automatic rotation works independently from the OCR mechanism, the feature also helps to improve OCR results.
Multi-Page Documents. There are no limits to the number of pages of the PDF or TIFF documents. There are also no limits to the number of pages that can be processed each day. Usage is very simple: just drag a document into the app's Dock icon, or open it with the OCRKit application (Open With > ).
AppleScript Support. OCRKit includes AppleScript support, so professional users can use it for programmed batch conversion.
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Aeschylus reviewed on 22 Feb 2014
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Ryde reviewed on 20 Feb 2013
a) OCRKit can be invoked in an automated, i.e. "batch", fashion.
b) OCRKit is able to preserve CCITT Group 4 compression in scanned images, at least in some cases. This finally gives me output files which have the exact same image quality as the original and are only marginally bigger due to the added text content. Kudos!
OCRKit is not perfectly straightforward to use IMHO and could definitely use a better documentation, though.
Regarding the recognition accuracy: I have been able to obtain very good results with OCRKit provided that the quality of the scanned image is high. In other cases the recognized text will contain errors, as with any other OCR software. OCRKit is said to be able to utilize a dictionary for better results, but it seems to me that this does not yet work in all cases.
So overall I am quite impressed with OCRKit, but improvements are of cause welcome. I hope the developers continue to bring their app forward, it has a lot of potential.
Please also see my comments added to the review of "brianvon" right below.
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brianvon reviewed on 16 Feb 2013
Spell correction does not work well. It took an easily readable word "confirmation" --> "confirmatioIL"
And that was with dictionary turned on!
try again
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The problem is that most Mac applications which deal with PDFs are implemented using Apples PDFKit framework which has some limitations. In particular, when writing out PDFs, it can only write a subset of the image codecs defined by the PDF standard. So if you got PDFs which use a sophisticated special purpose (i.e. high-quality and high-compression) image codec like JBIG2 or CCITT Group 4, your average PDFKit based OCR application which only supports Deflate and JPEG as its compression methods has a problem. Either will it create files which are much bigger than the original (Deflate keeps the image quality as is, but is too simplistic to compress well) or which got degraded graphics (JPEG trades image quality for smaller file sizes). To avoid these drawbacks, the software developers would either need to go extra miles and partly bypass PDFKit or use a different PDF handling library altogether. Both requires effort, knowledge and maybe additional licensing costs, so most companies don't seem to bother. The developers of OCRKit are a notable exception, because at least in some cases OCRKit is actually able to transfer the images 1:1.
Regarding the recognition accuracy: I have been able to obtain very good results with OCRKit provided that the quality of the scanned image is high. But I've also had some cases like you mentioned, i.e. errors which I thought the dictionary function should have caught easily.
So overall I am quite impressed with OCRKit, but improvements are of cause welcome. I hope the developers continue to bring their app forward, it has a lot of potential.
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Aeschylus reviewed on 16 Jan 2013
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davert reviewed on 03 Dec 2012
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Background Information: CCITT T.6 aka Group 4 compression is a very space efficient lossless compression algorithm which was originally developed for facsimile transmission of black-and-white images over telephone lines and data networks. It is optimized for documents with black letters on white background, where it typically yields output files which are multiple orders of magnitude smaller than the results of any other image compression algorithm. CCITT Group 4 has been part of the PDF standard right from the start and so it is still the best choice when storing scanned bi-level images in a TIFF or PDF file.
However, because almost all OCR solutions available on OS X use Apple's PDF Kit framework, and because PDF Kit can only read this format, but does not write it, the resulting files are either much bigger than the original or suffer from a significant loss of image quality as the OCR apps throw away image detail to save space. :-(((
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jefferis reviewed on 31 Aug 2012
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Yohan199 reviewed on 15 Aug 2012
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Garyrob reviewed on 15 Feb 2012
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Brian Duffy reviewed on 20 Jan 2012
I just bought a Mac running Lion and of course my older, expensive, Omni Page OCR software was no longer supported due to Apple asinine decision to drop Rosetta emulation. So, I had to scramble to find a quick and cheap alternative and wow, this did the job! For Free! I also downloaded OCRTools from the app store for $4.99 and than worked well also, maybe just sightly better.
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Fixed it for you.
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No thanks, there're plenty of other choices.
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Cigire rated on 16 Jan 2013
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Marilou53 rated on 16 Jan 2013
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ParisP rated on 27 Apr 2012