clipboard-ocr

Perform OCR (Optical Character Recognition) on image present on clipboard

• current implementation requires xclip to be installed.
  • On Arch Linux: sudo pacman -S xclip
  • On Debian based distros (eg: Ubuntu): sudo apt install xclip
• Currently supported OS: Linux

Usage

    pip install -r requirements.txt

• copy portion of image you want to run OCR on, onto clipboard
• run program.py
• OCR will be generated and copied to your clipboard, paste in any text editor to verify

Upcoming fixes:

• fix issue: will fail if latest clipboard entry is not an image
• fix: don't create temporary files

Tips:

• use flameshot or ksnip for your screenshot needs.
• If you use KDE, you can set custom shortcuts to run this program whenever you press a keyboard shortcut. You can set this up in the KDE settings. (google KDE custom shortcuts)
  • for other Desktop Environments, do some research.