Bug 467942 - Windows Powertoys Text Extractor
Summary: Windows Powertoys Text Extractor
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 460320
Alias: None
Product: Spectacle
Classification: Applications
Component: General (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Other Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Boudhayan Gupta
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Reported: 2023-03-29 19:34 UTC by Christian
Modified: 2023-04-03 23:20 UTC (History)
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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 ***