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fny / swiftocr

swiftocr

macOS OCR command-line tool for almost any image format

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What to know before exploring

What it is

macOS OCR command-line tool for almost any image format

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 1:49:46 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by day2 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2025-02-14 12:05:10 UTC to 2025-03-15 02:44:33 UTC.

012025-02-14 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-02-15 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsFeb 142025-02-15 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-02-16 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-02-16 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-02-17 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-02-17 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-02-18 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-02-18 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-02-19 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-02-19 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-02-20 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-02-20 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-02-21 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-02-21 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-02-22 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-02-22 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-02-23 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-02-23 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-02-24 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-02-24 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-02-25 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-02-25 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-02-26 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-02-26 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-02-27 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-02-27 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-02-28 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-02-28 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsFeb 282025-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-03-02 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-03-02 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-03-03 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-03-03 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-03-04 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-03-04 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-03-05 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-03-05 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-03-06 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-03-06 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-03-07 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-03-07 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-03-08 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-03-08 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-03-09 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-03-09 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-03-10 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-03-10 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-03-11 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-03-11 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-03-12 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-03-12 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-03-13 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-03-13 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-03-14 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-03-14 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-03-15 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-03-15 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-03-16 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsMar 15

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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Feb 142025-02-14 00:00:00 UTC2025-02-15 00:00:00 UTC101
Feb 152025-02-15 00:00:00 UTC2025-02-16 00:00:00 UTC000
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Mar 142025-03-14 00:00:00 UTC2025-03-15 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 152025-03-15 00:00:00 UTC2025-03-16 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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fny·Feb 14, 2025
A little secret: Apple’s Vision Framework has an absurdly fast text recognition library with accuracy that beats Tesseract. It consumes almost any image format you can think of including PDFs. I wrote a simple CLI tool and more featured Python wrapper for it: https://github.com/fny/swiftocr
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