Readiris
Readiris is an optical character recognition (OCR) application for macOS that converts scanned documents, PDFs, and images into editable text. It supports multiple languages, can extract text from photographs of documents, and exports to various formats including Word, Excel, searchable PDF and plain text. The app is commonly used by businesses, students and professionals to digitise paper documents, archive records and make image-based text machine-readable and searchable.
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1 suggestionWe could not find recent information about Readiris to confirm whether a native Apple Silicon build exists. Given that we are now 16 months away from the September 2028 removal of Rosetta 2, it is important to establish this soon. Contact the developer (I.R.I.S.) directly through their support page or website to ask explicitly whether a native Apple Silicon build is planned, or whether an update shipping native support has already been released. Check your current installed version and compare it against the vendor's official changelog — if a recent release notes native Apple Silicon support, update immediately. If the developer indicates no native version is forthcoming, begin researching alternatives such as PDFpen Pro, OmniGraffle or Prizmo, all of which offer OCR features and run natively on M-series Macs. Time is on your side now, but waiting too much longer will leave you scrambling if a native build does not materialise before macOS 28 arrives.
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