ZENOCR FACT SHEET
Last updated 23 August 2026


Name            ZenOCR
                App Store listing: "ZenOCR - Local AI OCR"
What it is      Offline OCR app for macOS. Screenshot capture and file
                drop, text and Markdown out.
Platform        macOS 14.0 or later. Apple Silicon only.
Price           Free to download, with a 7 day trial of AI mode.
                $12.99 once to unlock Pro. No subscription.
                Fast mode stays available after the trial ends.
Download size   11.6 MB
Engines         Apple Vision (Fast mode). On-device GLM-OCR and
                DeepSeek-OCR-2 (AI mode), running on the Neural Engine.
Output          Plain text, Markdown, tables, LaTeX for equations.
Developer       Taoo425, working solo.
Category        Productivity, rated 4+.

Website         https://zenocr.com
App Store       https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id6762506200
Email           hello@zenocr.com
X               @Taoo425


WHAT IT DOES

Works fully offline. No account, no upload, no API key field. The
models download once on first launch and never touch the network
again.

Two modes on one shortcut. Fast mode uses Apple Vision and returns
everyday text instantly. AI mode runs an on-device model for the pages
Vision gives up on.

Handles handwriting, equations, tables and multi-column PDFs. Output is
Markdown, with LaTeX for the maths.

Two models to pick from inside AI mode. GLM-OCR for handwriting,
stained paper and skewed photocopies. DeepSeek-OCR-2 for clean
documents, tables and more languages.

Apple Silicon native, running on the Neural Engine. 11.6 MB to
download.


WHAT IT DOES NOT DO

It does not produce a searchable PDF. It outputs text and Markdown, and
does not write a text layer back into a PDF file.

It is not a PDF editor. No editing, redacting, merging, forms or
signing.

There is no Obsidian plugin and no Notion integration. It can save its
output as a Markdown file into any folder, including one inside an
Obsidian vault.

Diagrams and figures are not parsed. Text and tables only.

Arabic, Hindi and Thai are not where the developer wants them yet.

AI mode wants memory. On an 8 GB Mac, Fast mode is the better default.

macOS only. There is no iPhone, iPad, Windows or web version. Intel
Macs cannot run AI mode.

Accuracy is not 100 percent, and the app's own public reviews say so.


BACKGROUND

ZenOCR launched on r/macapps in May 2026 as one window: drag a file in,
get text out. Most of what has been added since came out of the
comments in that thread, including more languages, PDF to Markdown and
LaTeX tables. Both threads are public, criticism included.

Launch thread
https://www.reddit.com/r/macapps/comments/1thq09w/my_handwriting_is_so_bad_i_had_to_build_my_own/

Screenshot capture thread
https://www.reddit.com/r/macapps/comments/1udhib8/zenocr_my_offline_ai_ocr_app_now_does_screenshot/
