SUMMARY *** It would be great to be able to OCR screenshots directly, so you can copy text from them or make them searchable via pdfgrep. This could be done by Tesseract, enabled only if installed, and would kind of easy to add, but very useful. ***
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Skanpage is already using Tesseract for OCR, so that could be a place to look for inspiration.
as a workaround one could try to use this command for OCR with spectacle: For X11: `spectacle --nonotify --region --background -o /proc/selt/fd/1 | tesseract stdin stdout | xclip -in -selection clipboard` For Wayland: `spectacle --nonotify --region --background -o /proc/selt/fd/1 | tesseract stdin stdout | wl-copy`
Normcap is doing this, although it's a standalone app: https://github.com/dynobo/normcap/ Maybe worth looking into/getting in touch with the DEV. May I add, it would be cool if OCR capabilities weren't limited to Spectacle, but somehow baked-in in some frameworks part, and then be usable by any KDE app that can display images by pressing a button and having the detected text appear as overlay (e.g. gwenview showing a photo of a receipt, okular showing a page that was scanned without OCR, etc). Sounds complex and impacting quite some apps, but would be a wonderful productivity addition (if OCR accuracy is spot-on)
(In reply to andrea.ippo from comment #5) > Normcap is doing this, although it's a standalone app: > https://github.com/dynobo/normcap/ > > Maybe worth looking into/getting in touch with the DEV. > > May I add, it would be cool if OCR capabilities weren't limited to > Spectacle, but somehow baked-in in some frameworks part, and then be usable > by any KDE app that can display images by pressing a button and having the > detected text appear as overlay (e.g. gwenview showing a photo of a receipt, > okular showing a page that was scanned without OCR, etc). > > Sounds complex and impacting quite some apps, but would be a wonderful > productivity addition (if OCR accuracy is spot-on) I dont think it would actually be so hard. Tesseract OCR is both very advanced and open source. All KDE would have to do is to have it preinstalled, and then implement it into the apps. obviously implementing it would be a lot of work but having it be in KDE isnt hard.
New workaround for using ocr with spectacle For X11: spectacle --nonotify --region --background -o /tmp/screenshot.png && tesseract /tmp/screenshot.png stdout | xclip -in -selection clipboard For Wayland: spectacle --nonotify --region --background -o /tmp/screenshot.png && tesseract /tmp/screenshot.png stdout | wl-copy
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