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How to Copy Text from Images ? Answer is TextSnatcher !. Perform OCR operations in seconds on Linux Desktop.

6 mentions on Hacker News by 6 people: 3 stories, 3 comments · first 2022-02-11 · latest 2024-03-30

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  1. …to capture style (ex: lexical.dev)? Unsure if it is feasible to bundle it all up for web. See also: https://github.com/RajSolai/TextSnatcher / https://github.com/VikParuchuri/surya
    comment by ignoramous · 2024-03-30 · in Running OCR against PDFs and images directly in the browser
  2. …I see it uses portals (or scrot) to take a screenshot, and spawns Tesseract as an external process. https://github.com/RajSolai/TextSnatcher/blob/9e67760d6c16ea... Tesseract itself seems to be included in the Flatpak as you'd expect:…
    comment by jchw · 2024-03-15 · in TextSnatcher: Copy text from images, for the Linux Desktop
  3. …- it's calling `scrot -s -o` to a temp file, and then `tessaract` with no further preprocessing. https://github.com/RajSolai/TextSnatcher/blob/master/src/ser...
    comment by mappu · 2024-03-15 · in TextSnatcher: Copy text from images, for the Linux Desktop