IronOCR Mac Installation Guide

Name: IronOCR
Brand: Iron Software
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Kye Stuart

Updated:August 20, 2025

IronOCR supports macOS environments for both Intel and Apple Silicon (ARM) processors. Whether you're developing on a MacBook Pro with an M3 chip or an older Intel-based iMac, IronOCR has a tailored package for your platform.

macOS Compatibility

IronOCR supports:

macOS Monterey, Ventura, and Sonoma (Intel & Apple Silicon)
.NET 6, 7, 8, and 9
Visual Studio for Mac, JetBrains Rider, or CLI-based development with dotnet

macOS NuGet Package

The macOS-specific NuGet package includes all native dependencies for OCR processing on macOS platforms. Choose the package based on your machine architecture:

For Intel-based Macs (x64)

Install the IronOcr.MacOs NuGet package:

Install-Package IronOcr.MacOs

Install-Package IronOcr.MacOs

SHELL

For Apple Silicon Macs (ARM64)

For machines using ARM 64 chips such as M1, M2, or M3, install IronOcr.MacOs.ARM:

Install-Package IronOcr.MacOs.ARM

Install-Package IronOcr.MacOs.ARM

SHELL

Please note

Note: These packages include the native dependencies optimized for your macOS architecture. Be sure to install only the package matching your system to avoid runtime conflicts.

Hardware Specification

IronOCR uses the Tesseract OCR engine and native image processing libraries under the hood. These operations are compute- and memory-intensive, especially when working with high-resolution images, scanned PDFs, or multiple OCR language models. The hardware specifications primarily reflect the needs of running complex image processing and text recognition tasks reliably.

Minimum: 1 Core & 2 GB of RAM
Recommended: 4 Cores & 8 GB of RAM or above

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