I have MacOS Mojave v 10.14.4, MacBook Air early 2014.
What is the native Optical Character Recognition (OCR). I was recently playing with it but can't seem it find it now.
Also what is the best OCR, Native/free or purchased?
Thank you!
MacBook Air 13", macOS 10.14
MacOS and iOS are totally different, you have to download separate apps for each of them. Neither MacOS nor iOS has any "native" OCR, you have to add a 3rd party app to get it. I don't have any special recommendation other than what everyone can find via google search. Have a look at PDFPen.
There’s no native ocr, if you have an app it presumably came with your scanner. It could be as good as any other, a lot depends on what kind of texts you are working with.
Tom Gewecke, Thanks for your reply! Yes you are confirming what I found in my Google search. Seems like there should be a native OS app for OCR. I was thinking of the Continuity Camera, which is useful but limited. Then there is iOS app Google Lens, that can be used with MacOS, but I assumed an OS native app for OCR would perform better?
What would you recommend for MacOS OCR app, use: extracting text from labels, flat pages. I assume that I would be using MacOS OCR with iPhone iOS?
Thanks for your eyes and time!
Andy
Ok you suggest Have a look at PDFPen.
Re: MacOS and iOS are totally different, I get that. I should have explained myself in more detail.
I assumed that the typical use would be to use the iPhone camera to take a photo and/or scan a doc/label, then transfer the scanned doc file to the MacOS app, and then edit the scanned doc file with the MacOS app; at least that's the way I envision the process. Can you suggest a better approach?
Best OCR, Native/free or purchased, for MacOS Mojave v 10.14.4, MacBook Air early 2014?
