[eigenvalue]

I’ve found that the built in OCR in the iPhone is just way better and more accurate than everything else out there. I’m talking about how if you have an image in your camera roll on the iPhone, you can select the text and copy it out. I had the idea to simply expose that service better so it could be applied to PDFs and made my first ever iPhone app that does this. It can easily handle hundreds of pages too. Only problem is that it’s an iPhone app so it can’t easily be included in a programmatic fashion, but if you’re only trying to convert a reasonable number of documents it’s worth a try— the accuracy is really good:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/super-pdf-ocr/id6479674248

[maCDzP]

Y could probably build something with the shortcuts app that goes a long way - surprisingly long.

[raxrb]

Are you the guy that posted on x about using iphone device as OCR?

[eigenvalue]

Not sure, I may have mentioned something about iOS OCR in general (not the app, which I’ve never discussed publicly before now).