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mac-ocr: free local text recognition on your Mac
A tiny command-line tool that pulls text out of any image or PDF using Apple's built-in Vision engine — entirely on your machine, nothing uploaded.
mac-ocr is a command-line tool that extracts text from images and PDFs using Apple's own Vision framework — the same recognition engine baked into macOS. Everything runs locally and nothing is uploaded, and it can also rebuild a scanned PDF into a searchable one with a real selectable text layer. It works both as a CLI and as a Node.js library, and ships an agent skill so AI assistants can read documents through it.
Why a vibe-coder should care
If you've ever screenshotted a receipt, a slide or a page of a book and wished you could just copy the text, this does it for free without burning cloud vision tokens. And if you build with AI, it's a cheap way to let an assistant read documents straight off your disk.
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