• Mac OS X is the trademarked name for a series of graphical user interface-based operating systems developed by Apple Inc.

• Mac OS X is a Unix-based operating system based upon the Mach kernel.

• Mac OS X has its roots in Nextstep → so it has the same roots as BSD.

• Mac OSX was released in 1999. At that time Apple used PowerPC processors - from 2005 Apple announced that it will start to use INTEL™ CPUs in their computers.

• Since that time Apple pushes developers to deliver their applications as “universal binaries” - so that they run on both processors.

• With Mac OS 10.6 (August 28, 2009) Apple dropped the Power PC support for the operating system.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X

ABBYY offers a big and a small OCR SDK for Mac OS, additionally the Mobile OCR Engine is available for the iPhone OS.

• FineReader Engine 8.0 for MacOS X for Intel and Power PC
• Mobile OCR Engine 4.0 for MacOS X - Intel only
• Mobile OCR Engine for iPhone - on ARM CPUs

• FineReader Express for Mac

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