# macOS OCR MCP

> Use this tool when you need to extract text from images with high accuracy, such as digitizing printed documents or capturing text from screenshots. It solves problems like data entry and document scanning by providing text segments with confidence scores and bounding boxes as output. The tool takes images as input and returns extracted text, making it ideal for automating tasks that require text recognition on macOS devices.

Canonical page: https://skillsregistry.net/skills/whiteking64-macos-ocr-mcp  
JSON: https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/whiteking64-macos-ocr-mcp

## Description

Provides an OCR tool that extracts text from images using macOS's built-in Vision framework, returning text segments with confidence scores and bounding boxes.

## Trust

- **Trust score (0–1):** 0.70
- **Verification tier:** verified
- **Last scanned:** 2026-08-31

## Facts

- **Version:** 1.0.0
- **Skill type:** atomic
- **Execution layer:** mcp-remote
- **Runtime environment:** api
- **Category:** media
- **Updated:** 2026-08-31

## Source

- **Source listing:** [Glama](https://glama.ai/mcp/servers/byiuhfxwcz)
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/whiteking64/macos-ocr-mcp>

## Use it

Resolve this record through the SkillsRegistry MCP server (no auth, read-only):

```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user skillsregistry https://api.skillsregistry.net/mcp
```

```json
{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "get_skill",
    "arguments": {
      "slug": "whiteking64-macos-ocr-mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

REST: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/whiteking64-macos-ocr-mcp` · pull for local use: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/whiteking64-macos-ocr-mcp/pull`

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