App Detail » OCRKit

What's New

• improved PDF compatibility
• improved text recognition
• work around macOS UI crash

App Description

Convert any PDF or graphic file into searchable PDF, RTF, HTML and TXT with the fastest OCR for Mac! OCRKit is a simple and streamlined Mac application, that features advanced Optical Character Recognition technology, allowing you to convert scanned or printed documents into searchable and editable text.

You need to extract information from a scanned document in an email or created by DTP applications? It can be a great help for everyone: home users, corporate users at work, translators and educational institutions.

Simply run OCRKit on the document, and copy and paste the result where you need it. Stop retyping everything manually and save time and money by increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of your workflow.

OCRKit is fast and accurate, ensuring the document's content remains intact while saving time as well.

Key Features:
• Fastest OCR made for Mac
• High text recognition accuracy
• Instant content searchable thru Spotlight
• Highly compressed PDF
• Automatic rotation and de-skew
• Color detection
• Multi page processing without page limits
• Drag and drop functionality
• AppleScript support
• Many supported recognition languages

File formats that can be imported:
PDF, TIFF, JPEG, JPEG2000, PNG, PNM, BMP, PCX, GIF as well as OpenEXR.

File formats that can be saved:
PDF (Portable Document Format), HTML (HyperText Markup Language), RTF (Rich Text Format) and TXT (UTF-8 encoded plain text).

To directly scan from a scanner, you may also find our ExactScan application helpful.

The OCR engine recognizes the following languages:
Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Rumanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, and Norwegian.

App Changes

• June 13, 2014 Initial release
• July 28, 2014 Price increase: $37.99 -> $39.99
• August 04, 2014 Price decrease: $39.99 -> $33.99
• August 06, 2014 Price increase: $33.99 -> $39.99
• August 16, 2014 Price decrease: $39.99 -> $32.99
• August 19, 2014 Price increase: $32.99 -> $39.99
• August 31, 2014 New version 2.7
• August 31, 2014 Price decrease: $39.99 -> $32.99
• September 01, 2014 Price increase: $32.99 -> $39.99
• September 08, 2014 Price decrease: $39.99 -> $34.99
• September 09, 2014 Price increase: $34.99 -> $39.99
• September 13, 2014 Price decrease: $39.99 -> $32.99
• September 15, 2014 Price increase: $32.99 -> $44.99
• September 16, 2014 Price decrease: $44.99 -> $40.99
• September 20, 2014 New version 2.8
• September 21, 2014 Price decrease: $40.99 -> $33.99
• September 22, 2014 Price increase: $33.99 -> $39.99
• October 06, 2014 Price decrease: $39.99 -> $32.99
• October 06, 2014 Price increase: $32.99 -> $39.99
• October 12, 2014 Price decrease: $39.99 -> $30.99
• October 14, 2014 Price increase: $30.99 -> $39.99
• September 13, 2015 New version 2.14
• September 20, 2015 Price decrease: $39.99 -> $33.99
• September 22, 2015 Price increase: $33.99 -> $39.99
• November 07, 2015 Price decrease: $39.99 -> $29.99
• November 08, 2015 Price increase: $29.99 -> $34.99
• November 15, 2015 New version 15.11
• November 28, 2015 Price decrease: $34.99 -> $29.99
• November 29, 2015 Price increase: $29.99 -> $41.99
• December 08, 2015 Price increase: $41.99 -> $49.99
• December 13, 2015 Price decrease: $49.99 -> $29.99
• December 14, 2015 Price increase: $29.99 -> $39.99
• December 22, 2015 Price decrease: $39.99 -> $34.99
• January 04, 2016 Price increase: $34.99 -> $44.99
• January 16, 2016 New version 15.12
• January 26, 2016 Price decrease: $44.99 -> $39.99
• February 27, 2016 New version 16.2
• February 28, 2016 Price decrease: $39.99 -> $30.99
• February 29, 2016 Price increase: $30.99 -> $39.99
• March 26, 2016 Price decrease: $39.99 -> $30.99
• July 07, 2016 Price increase: $30.99 -> $39.99
• July 29, 2016 New version 16.7
• August 05, 2016 New version 16.8
• November 06, 2016 New version 16.10
• November 06, 2016 Price increase: $39.99 -> $41.99
• November 07, 2016 New version 16.11
• November 11, 2016 Price decrease: $41.99 -> $30.99
• November 13, 2016 Price increase: $30.99 -> $41.99
• December 02, 2016 New version 16.12
• December 15, 2016 Price decrease: $41.99 -> $39.99
• December 17, 2016 Price decrease: $39.99 -> $30.99
• December 18, 2016 Price increase: $30.99 -> $39.99
• December 21, 2016 Price decrease: $39.99 -> $25.99
• January 01, 2017 Price increase: $25.99 -> $39.99
• January 06, 2017 Price decrease: $39.99 -> $35.99
• June 14, 2019 New version 18.7
• June 14, 2019 Price increase: $35.99 -> $39.99
• June 17, 2019 New version 19.6
• June 22, 2019 Price decrease: $39.99 -> $29.99
• June 24, 2019 Price increase: $29.99 -> $39.99
• June 29, 2019 Price decrease: $39.99 -> $28.99
• July 03, 2019 Price increase: $28.99 -> $39.99
• August 16, 2019 New version 19.7
• September 28, 2019 Price decrease: $39.99 -> $30.99
• September 30, 2019 Price increase: $30.99 -> $39.99
• December 24, 2019 Price decrease: $39.99 -> $31.99
• January 07, 2020 Price increase: $31.99 -> $39.99