Tutorial: Command-line OCR on a Mac The best OCR engine out there is also free–it’s called tesseract, and should do a pretty good job converting your pdfs to readable text. But you have install it from the command line. Here are the steps that takes on a mac. Step 1: Install XCode. To install most open-source programs you need compilers that let you create computer programs from human-readable (sort of) code. Apple doesn’t include this on basic OS distributions anymore, so you have to download XCode from Apple (if you don’t have it already).
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