

The most impressive OCR software I've ever seen, for OS X or Windows, is Readiris Pro 9 from I.R.I.S., a company that originated in Europe but has now spread to North America. All you need is a standard flatbed scanner and some money for the software. I found two good applications that perform OCR (optical character recognition) in OS X. Until a few weeks ago, I thought it was scarcer than scarce, in fact I thought it was non-existent.īoy, was I wrong. OCR software, which turns a printed document or magazine page into editable text, is scarce in the OS X world. VueScan won my admiration in a heartbeat.Īl Fasoldt's reviews and commentaries, continuously available online since 1983 2 good scanner OCR programs for OS X Macs: Readiris Pro and VueScan
