Silo Scanner is being built to capture documents from a connected scanner, your iPhone's Continuity Camera, or imported images and PDFs; run Apple's Vision OCR on-device for searchable, selectable text; auto-detect edges, deskew, and clean every page; and file it all into a local, searchable library you can export as searchable PDFs. No cloud OCR, no upload, no account, no telemetry. A filing cabinet for paper that can't leave the room.
Silo Systems builds infrastructure for people who would rather not negotiate with their own software. Silo Scanner is the same discipline, pointed at one job — turning the paper on your desk into a clean, searchable, exportable archive — done entirely on the machine you already own. It is in development now, and the commitments below are the spec it is being built against: your contracts, statements, and records never become someone else's training data, and your archive never lives on someone else's server.
Capture, edge detection, page cleanup, OCR, search indexing, and PDF export are all being built to run on your Mac through Apple's own frameworks — Vision for text recognition, ImageCaptureCore for scanners, Continuity Camera for your iPhone. No cloud OCR service in the loop, ever. A locked office works exactly the way your desk does.
No analytics SDK, no telemetry, no account, no crash reporter, no external API. The documents you scan — contracts, medical records, tax files, whatever lands on your desk — stay in the local app container or in folders you choose. That is the commitment Silo Scanner is being built against, and the shipped app will meet it.
Apple's Vision framework runs text recognition directly on your Apple Silicon GPU and Neural Engine, and a local SQLite FTS5 index makes every recognized word searchable. The OCR pipeline a cloud service would charge you a subscription for — and read your documents to provide — is computed on hardware you already own and kept there.
Silo Scanner is being built to take pages from a connected document scanner through ImageCaptureCore, from your iPhone as a Continuity Camera, or from images and PDFs you drag in. Edges are detected, pages are deskewed and cleaned as they arrive — a phone photo of a receipt and a flatbed scan land in the same inbox, looking the same.
Apple's Vision framework runs text recognition directly on your Apple Silicon hardware — no cloud OCR API, no per-page billing, no document ever uploaded. Every scan comes back with a selectable, searchable text layer, computed on-device and stored on-device. That is the design, and it will not change.
Documents are named and organized into a local library indexed with SQLite full-text search (FTS5) — type a phrase you half remember from a contract and the page comes back, offline. When you need a copy outside the app, export a searchable PDF to any folder you choose. Your paper, your files, no re-upload.
Being built to pull pages in from a connected scanner via ImageCaptureCore, from your iPhone through Continuity Camera, or from images and PDFs you already have — one inbox for everything on paper.
Apple's Vision framework will recognize the text on every page locally, producing searchable, selectable text layered onto the scan — no cloud OCR API, no per-page metering, no document ever transmitted.
Edge detection, deskew, perspective correction, and page cleanup are being built into the capture path, so a photo of a crumpled receipt comes out looking like it went through a flatbed.
Documents will be named, dated, and organized into a local library backed by SQLite full-text search (FTS5) — type a phrase from a contract and the page that contains it comes back, entirely offline.
Being built to export any document as a searchable PDF — the cleaned page images with the recognized text embedded underneath — written straight to a folder you choose. No watermark, no re-upload.
A SwiftUI app on Apple frameworks end to end — Vision, ImageCaptureCore, AVFoundation, SQLite — with no bundled web stack, no Electron, and no network service of any kind in the design.
Cloud scanning apps rent you OCR by the month and run your paperwork through their servers to provide it. Silo Scanner is planned as a single purchase on the Mac App Store, with unlimited local scanning, recognition, and export — because it all runs on hardware you already own. Buy once, keep the archive.
Planned for the Mac App Store ⌘Silo Scanner is in development, planned for the Mac App Store. Join the waitlist and we'll send a single email when it goes live — no marketing list, no newsletter, no follow-up campaigns.
