Optical Character Recognition (OCR) converts printed type into text. Until now OCR programs have been too expensive and too complicated for occasional use.

VelOCRaptor makes OCR available to all Mac users - offering drag-and-drop simplicity.

VelOCRaptor uses the Google-sponsored OCRopus OCR engine. On good quality documents its accuracy rivals the best in the business. It is work in progress though - with poor quality scans and odd fonts it can still struggle.

Here are some key features of "VelOCRaptor":

· Reads image files and writes PDF's with text and image.
· No-Click OCR (TM;-) to read and write with no user interaction.
· Use with Leopard's Image Capture application.
· VelOCRaptor is also able to easily integrate with most scanner software.

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Adds the ability to disable running the Mac spell-checker.
· If you are running on text that isn't in the same language as your Mac, or is mainly numbers and letter patterns, it should improve the output.