Open-source FrankenOCR app launches with on-device multimodal OCR
doodlestein · x · 2026-08-28
The FrankenOCR app has been approved by the App Store. It is a free, open-source, and ad-free tool focused on privacy, featuring on-device OCR. Capabilities include document-to-Markdown conversion, formula and chart recognition (GOT-OCR2), image understanding (SmolVLM2), chart data extraction (OneChart), and sheet music to MusicXML conversion. All models run locally without data uploads.
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