SwiftOCR 📖

OCR command line tool for macOS using Vision Framework.

This works with almost any image format: png, pdf, heic, jpeg, ai, tiff, webp and more! If you can open it with Preview or NSImage, it should work.

Installation

Make sure you have XCode installed. If not, you can install the command line tools with the following command:

xcode-select --install

Then simply run sh bash.sh to build swiftocr, and move it somewhere in your path like /usr/local/bin/swiftocr.

Usage

Usage:

  swiftocr <image-path> [options]
  cat <image-path> | swiftocr - [options]

Options:

    --fast                      Use fast recognition (lower accuracy)
    --languages en,fr,...       Specify recognition languages (ISO 639)
    --correction                Enable language correction
    --custom-words w1,w2,...    Add custom words to improve recognition
    --custom-words-file w.txt   Add custom words from a file (line separated)

Returns the following list with unsorted keys:

    [{
        "text" : str,
        "confidence": float,
        "boundingBox" : {
            "x" : int,
            "y" : int,
            "width" : int,
            "height" : int
        }
    }, ...]

Works on almost any image format.

Bounding box values for x and y start from the top left corner of the image with x increasing to the right and y increasing downwards.