You could run a farm of iphones to OCR memes if you felt so inclined

https://findthatmeme.com/blog/2023/01/08/image-stacks-and-ip...

That blog post is glorious. Thanks for sharing.

In my experience using it constantly, it is far beyond Tesseract’s.

I have never gotten truly garbled output from Apple’s, whereas Tesseract will frequently produce random Unicode characters from text.

Apple’s also handles things like overlapping text or changing font sizes and typefaces far better than any open-source OCR I’ve used.

IMO it goes head to head with the anazon/google cloud OCR services. It’s works superbly.

Way, way better than Tesseract!

Yes, as long as you pay for the mac hardware it’s yours to do with as you please. I’m not an attorney and this is not legal advice.

Notably, Apple seems to attach some very unfriendly restrictions to some of the built-in stuff, such as the voices. You can't use those commercially, it appeared to me when I researched it.