What versions of macOS are compatible?

FrameOCR is compatible with macOS Sonoma (14.0) and up.

Is there a free trial?

FrameOCR is free to use and evaluate, and after 7 days it will start asking you to consider upgrading. If it helped you be more productive and saved you time, please consider purchasing the app!

Is the purchase a one-time payment or a subscription?

Your purchase is a one-time payment, not a subscription.

What languages are supported by the text recognition engine?

For single-target language mode (43 languages):

English, Afrikaans, Albanian, Belarusian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, French, German, Hungarian, Korean, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Lithuanian, Malay, Maori, Norwegian, Occitan, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Welsh.

The Chinese OCR processing supports Simplified Chinese (简中), Traditional Chinese (繁中), and Pinyin (拼音).

For Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, auto-detection of text orientation is also supported (as of v1.2.0). If the auto-detection isn't working (which may happen for strangely structured text), you can also manually specify this setting to horizontal or vertical. If the detected text is vertical, then a right-to-left reading direction is assumed.

Remember to select your target language in the app settings so that the best model can be used (Settings > General > OCR Language).

For Document Analysis Mode (109 languages):

English, Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Thai, Greek, Tamil, Telugu

Arabic Script: Arabic, Persian, Uyghur, Urdu, Pashto, Kurdish, Sindhi, Balochi

Latin Script: French, German, Afrikaans, Italian, Spanish, Bosnian, Portuguese, Czech, Welsh, Danish, Estonian, Irish, Croatian, Uzbek, Hungarian, Serbian (Latin), Indonesian, Occitan, Icelandic, Lithuanian, Maori, Malay, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Swahili, Tagalog, Turkish, Latin, Azerbaijani, Kurdish, Latvian, Maltese, Pali, Romanian, Vietnamese, Finnish, Basque, Galician, Luxembourgish, Romansh, Catalan, Quechua

Cyrillic Script: Russian, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Serbian (Cyrillic), Bulgarian, Mongolian, Abkhazian, Adyghe, Kabardian, Avar, Dargin, Ingush, Chechen, Lak, Lezgin, Tabasaran, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Tajik, Macedonian, Tatar, Chuvash, Bashkir, Malian, Moldovan, Udmurt, Komi, Ossetian, Buryat, Kalmyk, Tuvan, Sakha, Karakalpak

Devanagari Script: Hindi, Marathi, Nepali, Bihari, Maithili, Angika, Bhojpuri, Magahi, Santali, Newari, Konkani, Sanskrit, Haryanvi

Does FrameOCR use cloud OCR processing?

No, FrameOCR runs all OCR processing entirely locally and offline on your machine. That means there is no limit to how much you can use the text or LaTeX recognition features.

What programming language is FrameOCR written in?

FrameOCR is written entirely in Swift 6, built natively for macOS.

What is the difference between the version available directly from FrameOCR.com and the one on the Mac App Store?

In terms of OCR functionality, the two offerings are identical. However, the version available through the App Store does not have any license key activation functionality because users purchase the app up front. This alternative is offered for users who may prefer to purchase directly through Apple, and/or to avoid keeping track of a license key.