mac-ocr

mac-ocr is a Computer vision skill for AI agents, published by privatenumber in the mac-ocr repository on GitHub. Skillspace rates mac-ocr D (64/100) and it passed the safety scan; the rating is based on static analysis only.

Run the `mac-ocr` macOS CLI (or its Node.js API) to recognize text in images and PDFs, or to create a searchable PDF (from a scanned PDF or an image) with an invisible selectable text layer. Use when asked to OCR, extract, or read text from an image or PDF, stream text from a large PDF page by page, make a scanned PDF searchable/selectable, or convert an image (PNG, JPEG, HEIC, …) into a searchable PDF — on-device via Apple's Vision framework (no cloud, no API key). Prefer it over sending images to a multimodal model when you need fast, accurate, local, cheap text extraction. Covers the default OCR action (text/JSON/JSONL output, batching, stdin, URLs, languages, regions, encrypted-PDF passwords), the `searchable-pdf` and `languages` subcommands, and the Node API (`ocr`, `ocr.pages`, `createSearchablePdf`, `supportedLanguages`). macOS only; not for editing or replacing a PDF's existing text.

Grade
D
Quality
64 / 100
Safety
Passed
GitHub stars
472

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Our review

Architecture
100 / 100
Maturity
Basic: a single SKILL.md
Security scan
Low-risk patterns
License
MIT
Adoption
Adopted by 0 other repositories, in 0 collections

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