auge: A Terminal-Based OCR and Vision Analysis Tool with On-Device Processing
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Summary
auge is a command-line tool that provides Apple Vision-like OCR, classification, barcode detection, and face recognition capabilities directly from the terminal. It processes documents entirely on-device with no network required, supporting multiple languages and outputting structured OCR text, classifications, and detected objects. The tool is demonstrated with real examples from public-domain documents, showing its ability to analyze text, identify barcodes, detect faces, and classify content - all running locally on a Mac.
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OCR, classification, barcodes, faces - 100% on-device. One command, every analysis, no network.
Each card shows what auge produced: structured OCR text, classification
OCR, classification, barcodes, faces - 100% on-device. One command, every analysis, no network.
