Desktop app
okraPDF on your machine
A local PDF workbench: open a document, parse it with on-device OCR or a local vision model, read the output beside the page it came from, and redact PII without the file leaving your computer.
macOS · Apple silicon — 1.0.0-rc.8
Open a PDF, parse it on your own machine with Apple Vision or a local vision model, review source-aligned output, and redact PII locally with Presidio.
Download Okra-1.0.0-rc.8.dmg (2.9 MB) — Apple silicon Mac, macOS 13 or later. Developer ID signed, hardened, notarized by Apple, and stapled.
SHA-256 86559fbb63d6c7f151b603c56a3022095bdba836af76fa9e03fb227e55f60267 · release notes
- Download the DMG and open it.
- Drag Okra onto the Applications shortcut, then eject the DMG.
- Open Okra from Applications — it opens normally under Gatekeeper.
- Optional: verify the download with shasum -a 256 -c Okra-1.0.0-rc.8.dmg.sha256.
Windows · portable — 0.1.0-alpha.1
The same local-first reader for technical testers: parse with Windows OCR, Chandra OCR 2, or a local Ollama vision model, then review and redact locally.
Download okraPDF-Windows-v0.1.0-alpha.1.zip (7.0 MB) — Windows 10 or later, x64. Unsigned portable build — SmartScreen will warn.
SHA-256 0fb05a2dc0a2e61ecf6d70392af796b8b1b8dbb7ccbe296d083e77abb360b392 · release notes
- Download the ZIP and unzip it anywhere.
- Run the executable. SmartScreen warns because the alpha is unsigned.
- Optional: verify with CertUtil -hashfile okraPDF-Windows-v0.1.0-alpha.1.zip SHA256.
- Run state lives in %APPDATA%\Okra\Runs — deleting the executable leaves it.
Every build, with checksums, is published on GitHub Releases. Prefer nothing to install? The browser tools run the same conversions without a download.