Bug 511838

Summary:	Show OCR output as Kdialog box or native window
Product:	[Applications] Spectacle	Reporter:	Sauf <hsaom>
Component:	General	Assignee:	Noah Davis <noahadvs>
Status:	RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Severity:	minor	CC:	dev, kde
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	git-master
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Arch Linux
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments:	OCR UX Showcase (I piped the OCR result to KDialog using a bash script)

Description Sauf 2025-11-08 18:04:35 UTC

Created attachment 186623 [details]
OCR UX Showcase (I piped the OCR result to KDialog using a bash script)

SUMMARY
Currently the image OCR text result copies to clipboard, and most of the times requires to open a text editor afterwards. It's extra step. I think showing OCR output as Kdialog box has better UX. refer to video attachment.

Original PR: https://invent.kde.org/plasma/spectacle/-/merge_requests/462

Comment 1 Jhair Paris 2025-11-08 19:00:13 UTC

(In reply to Sauf from comment #0)
> Created attachment 186623 [details]
> OCR UX Showcase (I piped the OCR result to KDialog using a bash script)
> 
> SUMMARY
> Currently the image OCR text result copies to clipboard, and most of the
> times requires to open a text editor afterwards. It's extra step. I think
> showing OCR output as Kdialog box has better UX. refer to video attachment.
> 
> Original PR: https://invent.kde.org/plasma/spectacle/-/merge_requests/462

I'm not so sure it's a better UX.

When you take the screenshot, a system notification appears allowing you to open a .txt file with all the text that was extracted.

Comment 2 Noah Davis 2025-11-08 20:23:43 UTC

While the user experience could be better, I don't think this would make the UX substantially better enough in a particular way to justify the slight inconvenience of having to click more. The linked MR already has a discussion about an alternative UX that I think would genuinely be better, but requires significantly more work to create.