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Features

Multiple Language Support.
Copy Text from images with a Drag.
Drag over any Image and Paste.
Fast and Easy to Use.
This application uses the Tesseract OCR 4.x for the character recognition.
Read more about Tesseract and Star ⭐️ Tesseract-Project.

Screencasts

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/54436424/152921719-228485ba-0d37-4b01-864e-63a2792248b5.mp4

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/54436424/152921736-c9567c9d-0afa-4c09-8706-6b2a1b6b635a.mp4

Screenshots

TextSnatcher OCR App for Linux

Support Me

Social Media Posts

LinkedIn Post on Why I created TextSnatcher

Dependencies

Ensure you have these dependencies installed

Runtime Dependency

scrot
tesseract-ocr
tesseract language data arch repos debian repos

Buildtime Dependency

granite
gtk+-3.0
gobject-2.0
gdk-pixbuf-2.0
libhandy-1
libportal-0.5

Install, build and run

# clone repository
git clone https://github.com/RajSolai/TextSnatcher.git TextSnatcher
# cd to dir
cd TextSnatcher
# run meson
meson build --prefix=/usr
# cd to build, build and test
cd build
sudo ninja install && com.github.rajsolai.textsnatcher

Inspirations

ReadMe: https://github.com/alainm23/planner
Application Structure: https://github.com/alcadica/develop
TextSniper (MacOS Application)

Made with ❤️ for Linux

TextSnatcher

Install / Use

README