Detect Regions (Apple Vision)

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Use this when: you want text bounding boxes on pages before (or without) transcription. On-device Apple Vision detects line and word regions and saves them per page — fast, local, free. For hard hands Apple can miss regions; try Detect Regions (VLM) with a vision model of your choice.

Folder	/Detect Regions
Steps	2
Tags	preset, regions, bboxes, ocr, layout

Steps, in run order

1. Files

Tool: Files — Pass through input files from workflow context

2. Detect Regions

Tool: Detect Regions — Finds WHERE the words are, on-device and free. Apple Vision reads the page locally to locate line and word boxes, so it does produce text — that text is a by-product of finding the boxes, not a transcription: it never replaces the page’s transcript, and no model is called. Runs before a transcriber so every box exists up front.

Settings this step uses:

Option	Value
language	en