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pbShot v0.3.0 - Tesseract OCR + macOS support

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@pbtechlab pbtechlab released this 27 Apr 04:42

v0.3.0 - Tesseract OCR + macOS support

New

  • Tesseract OCR engine integrated alongside PP-OCRv5 (selectable from Settings, Tesseract is now default)
  • macOS arm64 build added — Developer ID signed, notarized, and stapled for Gatekeeper

Windows (pbShot-0.3.0-win-x64.zip)

  • Bundled: tesseract 5.5.2 + leptonica + libtiff + libcurl + libarchive + jpn/eng/osd traineddata, plus existing PP-OCRv5 onnxruntime stack
  • No additional installation required

macOS arm64 (pbShot-0.3.0-macos-arm64.zip)

  • pbShot.app is signed (Developer ID Application: Hiroshi Tamura) and notarized by Apple
  • Tesseract is currently picked up from Homebrew (brew install tesseract tesseract-lang) at runtime; bundling planned for a follow-up
  • Carbon-based global hotkey support; menu-bar app (LSUIElement=YES)
  • Requires Screen Recording permission on first run