ocrmypdf
brew install ocrmypdfAdds an OCR text layer to scanned PDF files
https://ocrmypdf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
License: MPL-2.0
Development: Pull requests
Formula JSON API: /api/formula/ocrmypdf.json
Formula code: ocrmypdf.rb on GitHub
Bottle (binary package) installation support provided for:
| macOS on Apple Silicon |
golden gate | ✅ |
|---|---|---|
| tahoe | ✅ | |
| sequoia | ✅ | |
| Linux | ARM64 | ✅ |
| x86_64 | ✅ |
Current versions:
| stable | ✅ | 17.14.1 |
Depends on:
| cryptography | 50.0.2 | Cryptographic recipes and primitives for Python |
| freetype | 2.15.0 | Software library to render fonts |
| ghostscript | 10.08.0 | Interpreter for PostScript and PDF |
| img2pdf | 0.6.3 | Convert images to PDF via direct JPEG inclusion |
| jbig2enc | 0.32 | JBIG2 encoder (for monochrome documents) |
| libheif | 1.23.7 | ISO/IEC 23008-12:2017 HEIF file format decoder and encoder |
| libpng | 1.6.59 | Library for manipulating PNG images |
| pillow | 13.0.0 | Friendly PIL fork (Python Imaging Library) |
| pngquant | 3.0.3 | PNG image optimizing utility |
| pybind11 | 3.1.0 | Seamless operability between C++11 and Python |
| pydantic | 2.14.3 | Data validation using Python type hints |
| python@3.15 | 3.15.2 | Interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language |
| qpdf | 12.4.2 | Tools for and transforming and inspecting PDF files |
| rpds-py | 2026.9.1 | Python bindings to Rust's persistent data structures |
| tesseract | 5.5.4 | OCR (Optical Character Recognition) engine |
| unpaper | 7.0.0 | Post-processing for scanned/photocopied books |
Depends on when building from source:
| cmake | 4.5.0 | Cross-platform make |
| pkgconf | 3.0.10 | Package compiler and linker metadata toolkit |
Uses from macOS: libffi, libxml2 (since macOS Ventura), libxslt
Binaries:
ocrmypdf
GitHub Packages downloads:
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| 30 days | 90 days | 365 days | |
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| Installs | 4,381 | 12,569 | 63,156 |
Installs (--HEAD) | 6 | 25 | 123 |
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Installs on Request (--HEAD) | 6 | 25 | 123 |
| Build Errors | 1 |