OCR-text recognition to the Mac: The 3 best Apps

With OCR-text recognition Software, images, or PDFs can convert to Text on the Mac. We will show you the 3 best Mac Apps.

1. Free text recognition on the Mac With Google Drive

For some time, an automatic text recognition is also available with Google Drive is possible. Since this is invoked via the Browser, it is also available on your Mac.
In order to use this feature, you simply have the predictive text in the options to activate. Then all the images and PDF to be reviewed-documents to Text. Now you can access your document, open the plain text.
This function is free, but also not the best text recognition. Often "reads" the Software incorrect letters and you need to revise the Text in some cases, again. You should not trust the Google Drive-text recognition for the blind.

Prizmo 2 is a pretty good OCR program, the Mac-typically very user-friendly.
Because the App is more similar to a management software for documents with a built-in OCR text recognition. After you have created a new "document", you can add a variety of image files, or PDFs, and scan. This is especially handy if you want to associate different texts.
Prizmo also offers the advantage that you can scan, edit individual text elements such as Headings or paragraphs. So you don't get after the Scan is just a text document, but can edit individual elements, and then collected export.
The price of just 45 Euro is high, however, the Text-to-speech Software is worth, if you are scanning many pages, and the text you want to edit.

The Russian software manufacturer ABBYY is known for its good OCR text recognition Software, and this is also available on the Mac.
ABBYY Fine Reader Pro is similar to the App "Prizmo 2". Because of the Fine Reader is more of a document management Software with built-in OCR function. This is very accurate and an additional Correct is usually spared.
In addition, Fine Reader is ABBYY Pro to create documents and easy organization of scanned texts.
The Fine Reader costs just under 90 euros, significantly more than the App "Primzo 2", but offers almost the same functionality. Only the text recognition is, in a few cases better.

Did you know: We also have 3 OCR programs for Windows tested.