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Fast OCR to clipboard
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Fast OCR to clipboard
Just give me the text
I wanted to share a surprisingly elegant solution I found to copying text into the clipboard where for one reason or another it's otherwise not possible.
flameshot gui --raw | \
tesseract stdin stdout | \
xclip -in -selection clipboard
- flameshot :: Powerful yet simple to use screenshot software
- tesseract :: Tesseract Open Source OCR Engine
- xclip :: Command line interface to the X11 clipboard
I didn't come up with this incantation, rather found it after a lot of searching for a tool that solves this problem.
The flameshot gui launches a GUI that allows you to select a region of the screen, and then press enter. The image output is piped to tesseract which does the OCR and in turn pipes it to xclip which copies it to the clipboard.
I think this is the first time I've seen a GUI tool that follows the Unix Philosophy.
I personally alias this to ft in my NixOS (btw) config like so.
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