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Description:
Optical character recognition (OCR) program

Type: Formula | Tracked Since: Dec 28, 2025

Links: Homepage | formulae.brew.sh

Category: Developer tools

Tags: ocr text-recognition image-processing command-line gnu utilities

Install: brew install ocrad

About:
Ocrad is a command-line optical character recognition (OCR) program that extracts text from image files. It processes images by analyzing pixel patterns to recognize characters and output them as editable text. This lightweight tool is useful for converting scanned documents or images containing text into a machine-readable format.

Key Features:

Command-line interface for batch processing
Supports multiple image formats including PBM, PGM, and PPM
Lightweight and fast processing
Configurable output formatting options
GNU software with open-source availability

Use Cases:

Converting scanned documents to text files
Extracting text from images for editing
Automating text extraction in scripts
Processing images in batch operations

Alternatives:

Tesseract – More comprehensive OCR with better accuracy but larger footprint
gImageReader – GUI-based OCR tool with Tesseract backend

Version History

Detected	Version	Rev	Change	Commit
Sep 16, 2025 8:31am		0	VERSION_BUMP	5459a0c0