About this app
No other OCR tool for Mac is as simple, easy, or affordable as Elucidate. Just drag and drop a scanned PDF over Elucidate, and a fully-searchable one is created in its place through the power of optical character recognition (OCR). Using your PDF editor of choice, you can highlight text, define words, use built-in text-to-speech functionality, and make comments. The app is faster than ever. Elucidate will even separate pages from face-down book scans and output raw text files (enable in Preferences). *Please note that Elucidate, like other OCR tools, is designed for high quality black-and-white scans of text. Photos taken on a phone may not work.
Latest release
What’s New
• Bug Fixes • Performance Improvements • On the newest versions of macOS, OCR support for Cantonese (simplified & traditional), Korean, Japanese, Russian, and Ukrainian
Audience growth
Ratings growth
Baseline captured. Growth appears after the crawler observes a changed rating count.
Momentum comes from crawler snapshots for the tracked storefront. “Viral growth signal” means unusually fast recent rating gains; it is an indicator, not download data.
Price tracking
Price intelligence
First snapshot captured. The trend line starts after the next crawler price observation.
- First observed Aug 10, 2026 · 6:13 PM $3.99
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