diff --git a/.github/workflows/build_mac.yml b/.github/workflows/build_mac.yml
index 2ecc81f4..92d505d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build_mac.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build_mac.yml
@@ -103,11 +103,53 @@ jobs:
       working-directory: build
     - name: Display version information
       run: ./build/ccextractor --version
+  build_shell_hardsubx:
+    # Test build.command with -hardsubx flag (burned-in subtitle extraction)
+    runs-on: macos-latest
+    steps:
+    - name: Install dependencies
+      run: brew install pkg-config autoconf automake libtool tesseract leptonica gpac ffmpeg
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v6
+    - name: build with hardsubx
+      run: ./build.command -hardsubx
+      working-directory: ./mac
+    - name: Display version information
+      run: ./ccextractor --version
+      working-directory: ./mac
+    - name: Verify hardsubx support
+      run: |
+        # Check that -hardsubx is recognized (will fail if not compiled in)
+        ./ccextractor -hardsubx --help 2>&1 | head -20 || true
+      working-directory: ./mac
+  build_autoconf_hardsubx:
+    # Test autoconf build with HARDSUBX enabled (fixes issue #1173)
+    runs-on: macos-latest
+    steps:
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v6
+    - name: Install dependencies
+      run: brew install pkg-config autoconf automake libtool tesseract leptonica gpac ffmpeg
+    - name: run autogen
+      run: ./autogen.sh
+      working-directory: ./mac
+    - name: configure with hardsubx
+      run: ./configure --enable-hardsubx --enable-ocr
+      working-directory: ./mac
+    - name: make
+      run: make
+      working-directory: ./mac
+    - name: Display version information
+      run: ./ccextractor --version
+      working-directory: ./mac
+    - name: Verify hardsubx support
+      run: |
+        # Check that -hardsubx is recognized
+        ./ccextractor -hardsubx --help 2>&1 | head -20 || true
+      working-directory: ./mac
   build_rust:
     runs-on: macos-latest
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v6
-      - name: cache 
+      - name: cache
         uses: actions/cache@v5
         with:
           path: |
@@ -121,5 +163,5 @@ jobs:
           toolchain: stable
           override: true
       - name: build
-        run: cargo build 
+        run: cargo build
         working-directory: ./src/rust
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diff --git a/docs/HARDSUBX.txt b/docs/HARDSUBX.txt
index 0622b07b..a3683257 100644
--- a/docs/HARDSUBX.txt
+++ b/docs/HARDSUBX.txt
@@ -54,6 +54,32 @@ To build the program with hardsubx support,
 
 NOTE: The build has been tested with FFMpeg version 3.1.0, and Tesseract 3.04.
 
+macOS
+-----
+
+Install the required dependencies using Homebrew:
+    brew install tesseract leptonica ffmpeg
+
+To build the program with hardsubx support, use one of these methods:
+
+== Using build.command (Recommended):
+    cd ccextractor/mac
+    ./build.command -hardsubx
+
+== Using autoconf:
+    cd ccextractor/mac
+    ./autogen.sh
+    ./configure --enable-hardsubx --enable-ocr
+    make
+
+== Using cmake:
+    cd ccextractor
+    mkdir build && cd build
+    cmake -DWITH_OCR=ON -DWITH_HARDSUBX=ON ../src/
+    make
+
+NOTE: The -hardsubx parameter uses a single dash (not --hardsubx).
+
 Windows
 -------
 
diff --git a/linux/configure.ac b/linux/configure.ac
index 985e33de..0adfb3bc 100644
--- a/linux/configure.ac
+++ b/linux/configure.ac
@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ AS_IF([ (test x$ocr = xtrue || test x$hardsubx = xtrue) && test ! $HAS_LEPT -gt
 AM_CONDITIONAL(HARDSUBX_IS_ENABLED, [ test x$hardsubx = xtrue ])
 AM_CONDITIONAL(OCR_IS_ENABLED, [ test x$ocr = xtrue || test x$hardsubx = xtrue ])
 AM_CONDITIONAL(FFMPEG_IS_ENABLED, [ test x$ffmpeg = xtrue ])
-AM_CONDITIONAL(TESSERACT_PRESENT, [ test ! -z  $(pkg-config --libs-only-l --silence-errors tesseract) ])
+AM_CONDITIONAL(TESSERACT_PRESENT, [ test ! -z  "$(pkg-config --libs-only-l --silence-errors tesseract)" ])
 AM_CONDITIONAL(TESSERACT_PRESENT_RPI, [ test -d "/usr/include/tesseract" && test $(ls -A /usr/include/tesseract | wc -l) -gt 0 ])
 AM_CONDITIONAL(SYS_IS_LINUX, [ test $(uname -s) = "Linux"])
 AM_CONDITIONAL(SYS_IS_MAC, [ test $(uname -s) = "Darwin"])
diff --git a/mac/configure.ac b/mac/configure.ac
index a5a52739..f2e96502 100644
--- a/mac/configure.ac
+++ b/mac/configure.ac
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ AS_IF([ (test x$ocr = xtrue || test x$hardsubx = xtrue) && test ! $HAS_LEPT -gt
 AM_CONDITIONAL(HARDSUBX_IS_ENABLED, [ test x$hardsubx = xtrue ])
 AM_CONDITIONAL(OCR_IS_ENABLED, [ test x$ocr = xtrue || test x$hardsubx = xtrue ])
 AM_CONDITIONAL(FFMPEG_IS_ENABLED, [ test x$ffmpeg = xtrue ])
-AM_CONDITIONAL(TESSERACT_PRESENT, [ test ! -z  $(pkg-config --libs-only-l --silence-errors tesseract) ])
+AM_CONDITIONAL(TESSERACT_PRESENT, [ test ! -z  "$(pkg-config --libs-only-l --silence-errors tesseract)" ])
 AM_CONDITIONAL(TESSERACT_PRESENT_RPI, [ test -d "/usr/include/tesseract" && test $(ls -A /usr/include/tesseract | wc -l) -gt 0 ])
 AM_CONDITIONAL(SYS_IS_LINUX, [ test $(uname -s) = "Linux"])
 AM_CONDITIONAL(SYS_IS_MAC, [ test $(uname -s) = "Darwin"])