macocr

An OCR Tool using Apple's Vision Framework API.

Command Line Arguments

OCR Tool using Vision Framework API

Usage: macocr [OPTIONS] [FILES]...

Arguments:
  [FILES]...  Input files

Options:
  -o, --ocr          OCR and export text files
  -s, --server       Run HTTP Server
  -a, --auth <AUTH>  HTTP Basic Auth (username:password) [default: ]
  -p, --port <PORT>  HTTP port number [default: 8000]
  -h, --help         Print help
  -V, --version      Print version

How to use

Read images and perform OCR, then output the result to text files

macocr -o *.png

Start the OCR HTTP server and specify the HTTP port

macocr -s -p 80

Start the OCR HTTP server and configure HTTP Basic Auth

macocr -s -a admin:password123 -p 80

After starting the HTTP server, you can upload an image from the homepage HTML or use curl to send an image via the API

curl -u admin:password123 \
  -H "Accept: application/json" \
  -X POST http://localhost:80/upload \
  -F "[email protected]"

Installation

Install by cargo

# Install Rust
curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh

# Install macocr
cargo install macocr
macocr -h

Features

• Directly invoke Apple's Vision Framework API for OCR
• Command-line mode: allows batch processing of image files and exports OCR results as TXT files
• HTTP server mode: provides a web interface to upload images and return OCR results
• Supports both HTML form upload and API interfaces
• Configurable HTTP Basic Auth authentication
• The maximum upload image size is 100 MB

Use cases

• macOS users need to perform batch OCR processing
• Applications that need to integrate OCR functionality via API

License

MIT License