ocrit

The macOS native OCR CLI utility behind OpenRewind, forked from insidegui/ocrit.

Compared to the original project, this modified version supports JSON output containing the coordinates and the confidence of the detected text, which provides a convenient way for other programs to be called.

USAGE: ocrit [<image-paths> ...] [--output <output>] [--language <language> ...] [--fast]

ARGUMENTS:
  <image-paths>           Path or list of paths for the images

OPTIONS:
  -o, --output <output>   Path to the output file (use .txt or .json extension), or - for standard output (default: stdOutput)
  -l, --language <language>
                          Language code to use for the recognition, can be repeated to select multiple languages
  -f, --fast              Uses an OCR algorithm that prioritizes speed over accuracy
  -h, --help              Show help information.

Language Selection

The --language (or -l) option can be used to indicate which language or languages will be used for OCR.

Multiple languages can be specified by repeating the option, example:

ocrit path/to/image.png -l ko-KR -l en-US

The order of the languages is important, as Vision's OCR engine will attempt to perform OCR using the languages in order. In my experience, if you have an image or document that contains a mix of English and some other language, it's best to specify en-US as the last language on the list.

Supported Languages

Language support varies with the version of macOS and whether or not the --fast flag is specified.

This is the current list of supported languages as of macOS 14.4:

en-US, fr-FR, it-IT, de-DE, es-ES, pt-BR, zh-Hans, zh-Hant, yue-Hans, yue-Hant, ko-KR, ja-JP, ru-RU, uk-UA, th-TH, vi-VT

This is the current list of supported languages as of macOS 14.4, with the --fast flag enabled:

en-US, fr-FR, it-IT, de-DE, es-ES, pt-BR