Batch Processing of Images to do OCR on macOS

Apple Script used as a helper to process an image file and writing the recognized text to a text file. The recognized text is written to a text file with the same name as the image file but with a .txt extension.

The script uses the Vision framework to recognize text in the image.

IMPORTANT: This script runs only on macOS 10.13+
Tested on macOS Sonoma 14.6+
Script inspired by this thread

Legal Disclaimer

This script is provided “as-is” without any warranty, express or implied, including but not limited to the warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement.

The author(s) of this script are not liable for any damages or issues arising from the use of this script. Use it at your own risk.

Trademark Disclaimer:

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Usage:

Help

osascript /my/script/process_image.scpt --help

Used to process an image file and writing the recognized text to a text file.
The recognized text is written to a text file with the same name as the image file but with a .txt extension.

Usage:
osascript /path/process_image.scpt "/my/image.png"

Flags:
-h, --help: Display this help message.
-d, --detect-language: Automatically detect the language. Default is disabled.
-l, --language ISO 639-1 string: Enable language correction. Default is disabled. Default is 'en'.
-c, --language-correction: Enable language correction. Default is disabled.

Single image

osascript /my/script/process_image.scpt "/my/images/image.png"

Multiple images

find /my/images \( -name "*.png" -o -name "*.jpg" -o -name "*.jpeg" \) -type f -exec \
    bash -c 'p="$(realpath "{}")"; [[ ! "$p" =~ ^\./ ]] && osascript /my/script/process_image.scpt "$p" \;

Where:

• /my/images is the folder to scan for image(s)
• /my/script The path this script was added

Execution log is generated as /my/script/process_image_log.txt