Bug 467942

Summary: Windows Powertoys Text Extractor
Product: [Applications] Spectacle Reporter: Christian <christian.tallner>
Component: GeneralAssignee: Boudhayan Gupta <me>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal CC: kde, nate
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
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Description Christian 2023-03-29 19:34:17 UTC 
SUMMARY
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The Windows Powertoys Text Extractor is a nice tool that works similar to the sniping tool or Greenshot or KDE-Spectacle.
You can select a rectangular part of the screen and it runs a OCR on the content and copies the text into your clipboard.
I think a feature like that for Spectacle would be a really productive enhancement.
It would be great if you could assign a different Hot-Key than the Screenshot Hot-Key for it.
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Currently you could take a screenshot with Spectacle.
Run an OCR software on the saved screenshot e.g. Tesseract and then copy the results.
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2023-04-03 23:20:24 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 460320 ***