OCRKit
OCRKit is an optical character recognition (OCR) tool for macOS that converts scanned documents and images containing text into editable and searchable digital text. It supports a wide range of image formats and languages, allowing users to extract text from PDFs, photographs and scanned pages for editing, archiving or integration into other documents. The app is typically used by students, professionals working with paper documents, researchers and anyone needing to digitise printed or photographed text.
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1 suggestionWe could not find reliable information about whether OCRKit has been updated to run natively on Apple Silicon. The developer's online presence appears limited, and there are no clear signals in public sources about the current status or development roadmap of the app. If you rely on OCRKit, we recommend contacting the developer directly at exactcode.de to ask whether a native Apple Silicon build is planned. This is important because Apple is removing Rosetta 2 in macOS 28, scheduled for September 2028, at which point any Intel-only build will stop launching entirely. As more actively maintained alternatives with confirmed native Apple Silicon support, consider PDFPen Pro (which handles OCR, editing and forms), TextSoap (for document processing), or the free open-source tool Tesseract via a macOS wrapper like Prizmo. If you find OCRKit still meets your needs and the developer confirms a native build is coming, watching their site for updates is the safest path forward.
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