This maintenance update makes OwlOCR safer and more reliable while preserving its existing workflows. Fixed: - Render inline code and image placeholders correctly when they appear inside Markdown link labels. - Prevent internal Markdown placeholder markers from appearing in previews or plain-text cleanup. Improved: - Validate saved settings field by field while preserving existing defaults, migrations, and entitlement safeguards. - Check native OCR responses, OCR cache entries, and renderer-to-main messages before using their data. - Strengthen file, URL, diagnostics, and export boundaries against malformed input. - Expand regression coverage across settings, OCR payloads, app communication, caching, Markdown rendering, and packaged dependencies.

Searchable PDF exports now keep every recognized table word in its detected position while removing only unwanted Markdown or HTML table formatting. Fixed: - Preserve all OCR AI table text as searchable, line- and cell-positioned content when “Preserve OCR AI table formatting” is turned off. - Flatten Markdown and HTML table structure without deleting the words inside each cell. - Prevent exports from retaining only the first heading or text block on table-heavy pages. - Keep right-margin references in separate boxes and preserve the detected horizontal width of each line. - Handle escaped and encoded pipes, inline code, entities, comments, quoted attributes, and multiline table markup without losing searchable text. LightOnOCR 2 remains the recommended default, and OvisOCR2 remains available as an optional experimental model.

OCR AI now gives you a second local model choice: OvisOCR2 is available as an optional experimental model for structured pages and may process some documents faster with less memory. New: - Choose OvisOCR2 or the recommended LightOnOCR 2 from Settings. - Keep both models installed and switch without deleting the other model’s files. - Use the same saved model choice from OwlOCR’s command line tool. Improved: - Ovis downloads a pinned, checksum-verified model conversion and runs entirely on your Mac. - Model-specific prompts, inference profiles, caches, and output cleanup keep results isolated when you switch models. - Ovis removes unsupported image-crop placeholders and trims pathological repeated endings from extracted text. LightOnOCR 2 remains the recommended default and has the broadest validation for degraded archival, multilingual, and scientific documents. OvisOCR2 currently uses Balanced Q4 and processes one page at a time.

Searchable PDFs now keep OCR AI text aligned with the words on the page—even across paragraphs, columns, and edited text. Improved: - Position semantic OCR AI paragraphs on their matching physical rows without compressing them into one hidden line. - Preserve whole words, headings, footers, and column order when rebuilding searchable layers. - Refresh stale searchable text only when replacement geometry covers the complete page text. Fixed: - Exclude divider-less Markdown tables, including rows with blank cells, when table embedding is disabled. - Keep pipe-delimited math, shell commands, and code examples searchable. - Consolidate linked wrapped-line controls into a single setting under Fixes.

OwlOCR 7.13.3 refreshes local OCR runtimes and makes Mac releases leaner and safer. Improved: - Upgrade LiteParse to 2.11.1 and the bundled llama.cpp inference runtime to b10310. - Exclude unused Linux and Windows OCR components from Mac downloads. - Validate update artifacts, blockmaps, sizes, and checksums before publishing. - Include the 7.13.2 searchable PDF text-placement, table-filtering, and compact scan-image fixes.

OwlOCR 7.13.1 improves searchable PDF accuracy and OCR AI table handling. Improved: - Keep searchable OCR text aligned with each detected line on the page. - Add paragraph semantics for compatible PDF readers without moving the text layer. - Clarify how wrapped-line handling behaves in OCR text and searchable PDFs. Fixed: - Omit both Markdown and HTML tables when OCR AI table embedding is disabled. - Preserve literal table examples inside code and comments. - Record wrap and text-cleanup settings in diagnostic logs for easier troubleshooting.

OCR AI text now lands where it belongs in searchable PDFs, while corrected scans stay dramatically closer to their original file size. Improved: - Uses an on-device Apple Vision layout pass to align OCR AI text with the page's real lines and columns. - Remembers page layout in the private OCR AI cache for fast, accurately positioned repeat recognition. - Preserves original compressed scan imagery whenever safe and overlays only changed pixels. Fixed: - Avoids massive file-size growth on common compressed scans. - Keeps multi-column text, page rotations, vector details, and corrected searchable text aligned. - Restores your previous page text and layout when OCR is cancelled. - Prevents cache clearing or late background work from overwriting newer results.

Huge scanned PDFs now use far less memory while keeping every page visually intact and searchable. Improved: - Keeps memory bounded while writing long searchable PDFs, including Separate PDF exports. - Renders OCR pages at the requested pixel resolution, improving speed without sacrificing PDF accuracy. - Inspects embedded PDF text in small batches so very large documents remain responsive. Fixed: - Replaces stale OCR text on scanned pages that also contain small vector or inline elements. - Keeps page geometry, metadata, and visible content intact when rebuilding searchable layers. - Pauses, resumes, and cancels every export worker together, with reliable cleanup even during immediate cancellation.

OwlOCR 7.11.3 speeds up multipage recognition and refreshes the local OCR AI runtime. Improved: - Uses adaptive image resolution, on-device result caching, and safe PDF and blank-page fast paths to avoid unnecessary AI work. - Processes PDF and image pages concurrently while preserving document order. - Shows a rough time-remaining estimate during multipage OCR and PDF export. - Simplifies OCR AI settings, adds optional small-image upscaling, and includes a one-click reset to recommended defaults. - Lets OCR AI handle up to two pages at once with bounded memory use. - Lets the inference runtime select supported Metal acceleration automatically. - Prevents overlapping work from starting duplicate local AI servers or overwriting newer settings. - Updates the bundled local inference engine for current model and runtime compatibility.

Shutting down or restarting your Mac is smooth again—OwlOCR now closes promptly instead of holding up the process or requiring you to quit it manually. Fixed: - Lets macOS close OwlOCR immediately during shutdown and restart. - Keeps normal Quit behavior tidy by stopping active OCR and local AI processes before exiting. - Delivers the same reliable shutdown behavior on Intel and Apple silicon Macs.

OwlOCR 7.11.1 makes toolbar tooltips less intrusive. Improved: - Hides a tool's tooltip as soon as you begin a screen selection. - Adds a setting under General > Toolbar to disable tooltips across the main toolbar. - Keeps toolbar controls labeled for VoiceOver when visual tooltips are turned off.

OwlOCR 7.11.0 can automatically correct turned pages. New: - Adds an opt-in orientation check for sideways and upside-down pages. - Keeps previews, OCR text boxes, and searchable PDF exports aligned with the detected rotation. - Supports both Apple Vision and OCR AI while preserving manual page rotations.

OwlOCR 7.10.2 improves OCR reliability. Fixed: - Prevents successful OCR from failing when macOS emits an unexpected native diagnostic message. - Makes communication with the OCR helper more resilient during single-page and multipage recognition.

OwlOCR 7.10.1 fixes Pro access for command-line workflows. Fixed: - The command-line tool now recognizes active OwlOCR Pro licenses from the direct-download app. - CLI entitlement checks use the correct settings when both the direct-download and Mac App Store editions have been installed.

OCR AI is now more reliable on long and dense documents, with fewer repeated text loops and an updated local runtime. Improved: - OCR AI follows the recommended LightOnOCR generation and image settings. - Repetition controls prevent documents from getting stuck repeating the same text. - The bundled local AI runtime has been updated for improved compatibility. - Numbered scanner files open in a more natural page order.

OwlOCR 7.9.0 makes large searchable PDF exports faster and easier to follow. Improved: - Searchable PDF writing is much faster when OCR text contains narrow text boxes. - Separate searchable PDF exports show page-level progress with the current filename and document count. - PDF exports can be cancelled while files are being written. - Account numbers and similar text remain contiguous in the searchable PDF layer.

OCR AI now runs through a native Mac runtime for a smoother local OCR experience on messy scans, screenshots, and dense PDFs. Apple Vision remains available when you need fast text boxes and searchable PDF export. Improved: - Searchable PDF export now preserves original PDF content by default, with flattening available as an opt-in setting. - Finder Quick Actions and App Group settings sync are more reliable in sandboxed Mac App Store builds. - Mac App Store signing, minimum OS handling, and native helper packaging are cleaner for this release. Fixed: - Restoring OwlOCR Pro purchases is more reliable.

OwlOCR 7 introduces optional local AI OCR for difficult screenshots, low-quality scans, dense layouts, and documents where Apple's built-in OCR needs a second pass. - New OCR AI engine that runs on your Mac - One-click model and runtime management in Settings - Apple Vision remains available for fast OCR with text boxes and searchable PDF export - Documents stay on-device; OwlOCR does not send them to an online AI service for these OCR engines

OwlOCR 7 introduces optional local AI OCR for difficult screenshots, low-quality scans, dense layouts, and documents where Apple's built-in OCR needs a second pass. - New OCR AI engine that runs on your Mac - One-click model and runtime management in Settings - Apple Vision remains available for fast OCR with text boxes and searchable PDF export - Documents stay on-device; OwlOCR does not send them to an online AI service for these OCR engines

OwlOCR 7 introduces optional local AI OCR for difficult screenshots, low-quality scans, dense layouts, and documents where Apple's built-in OCR needs a second pass. - New OCR AI engine that runs on your Mac - One-click model and runtime management in Settings - Apple Vision remains available for fast OCR with text boxes and searchable PDF export - Documents stay on-device; OwlOCR does not send them to an online AI service for these OCR engines

Improved searchable PDF export so edited OCR text is preserved in exported documents.

Fixed permissions issues

Add some support for more languages

Fixed some bugs, added some more verbose logging to the CLI

Fixed some issues with repetitive auth popups in CLI mode