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by graeme 244 days ago
Interesting. How do you harness it for that purpose? I've found apple ocr to be very good.
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The short answer is a tool like OwlOCR (which also has CLI support). The long answer is that there are tools on github (I created the stars list: https://github.com/stars/maxim/lists/apple-vision-framework/) that try to use the framework for various things. I’m also trying to build an ffi-based Ruby gem that provides convenient access in Ruby to the framework’s functionality.
Apple shortcuts allows you to use OCR on images you pass into it. Looking for “ Extract Text from Image”