# Japanese OCR — On-device Japanese text OCR

> On-device Japanese text OCR (iPhone/iPad app by Tomas Stankiewicz Baldassarri.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/japanese-ocr/id6784787587 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Tomas Stankiewicz Baldassarri](https://appshunter.io/developer/452519243)
- Category: Education, Utilities
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 18.0 · 5 MB
- Languages: American English, Italian, Japanese
- Released: 2026-07-02
- Data updated: 2026-08-12
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/japanese-ocr/id6784787587/reviews.md

## What is Japanese OCR?

Turn any photo, scan, or PDF into clean, editable text that mirrors the original layout.
Runs locally on your Mac, iPhone, or iPad.

Whether you're a learner, a translator, a researcher, just digitising receipts, and documents, Japanese OCR reads the page and hands you text you can copy, search, and export. 
It runs on Apple's Vision framework, with no third-party code and no internet connection.

• Images: PNG, JPEG, HEIC, TIFF;
• Multi-page PDFs;
• Born-digital PDFs are read straight from their text layer;
• Drag & drop, Files picker, Photo Library;
• Built-in document scanner and camera capture on iPhone and iPad, camera capture on Mac.

macOS 15 or later, or iOS 18 or later.


## Version history (last 4 releases)

### 1.4 — 2026-08-11

• Added formatted PDF export and bug fixes.

### 1.3 — 2026-07-14

• Code improvements and bug fixes.

### 1.2 — 2026-07-10

• Minor bug fixes;
• Auto Furigana;
• Code Optimisations.

### 1.0 — 2026-07-03

No release notes.

## More apps by Tomas Stankiewicz Baldassarri

- [RPN](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/rpn/id452519240)
- [bitSnake](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/bitsnake/id509845021)
- [Kanji Extractor](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/kanji-extractor/id6770293767)

All apps by Tomas Stankiewicz Baldassarri: https://appshunter.io/developer/452519243

## Related topics

[ocr japanese](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/ocr-japanese)

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