TakOCR : Easy OCR for Mac

Tako : Japanese for Octopus
OCRopus : Great Open Source OCR project

TakOCR is a project to fill a need I had. I needed a GUI to an OCR engine for my dad. He’s not really the compile-it-and-use-the-command-line type of guy. He is however a Mac using guy, so here are the results for your enjoyment.

NOTICE:

TakOCR is no longer developed or supported. I do not run Mac OSX anymore, and do not have a modern OSX machine to develop or test on. If the existing program works for you, I am happy to have been helpful. If it does not work, I am sorry and hope you find some suitable software.

To continue supporting TakOCR I would need a Mac that runs OSX 10.6. If someone wishes to provide such a machine I would be happy to update this software.

Latest downloads

TakOCR.pkg version 1 md5: a7a620e1bbef92c454764c42ce1b4b8e
All packages, sources, uninstaller, etc.

Usage

Run the installer program, then just drop images onto the program. The OCRed output will be displayed in a window which will pop up.

You will need to quit TakOCR before dropping more images onto it.

What’s Included, Copyrights

TakOCR is really just a bundle of OCRopus, ImageMagick, Ghostscript and a little wrapper application to tie it all together. ImageMagick and Ghostscript let you OCR PDFs, TIFFs, JPEGs, and many more formats.

The wrapper script is just a little Ruby program made into a dropplet application with the help of Platypus.

All of the software included is available under Open Source compatible licenses. You may download the sources at the link above and read individual packages licenses if you wish. Software included is : ImageMagick, uilib, libjpeg, leptonlib, libpng, ocropus, OpenFST, tesseract, libtiff, zlib, ghostscript.

TakOCR itself and the script behind the scenes are both placed in the Public Domain