SwampRabbit/TextSnatcher

How to Copy Text from Images ? Answer is TextSnatcher !. Perform OCR operations in seconds on Linux Desktop.

TextSnatcher

Copy Text from Images with ease, Perform OCR operations in seconds.

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

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LinkedIn Post on Why I created TextSnatcher

Dependencies

Ensure you have these dependencies installed

• granite
• gtk+-3.0
• gobject-2.0
• gdk-pixbuf-2.0
• tesseract-ocr
• tess-best trained data

Install, build and run

# install elementary-sdk, meson and ninja
sudo apt install elementary-sdk meson ninja
# install tesseract ocr
sudo apt install tesseract-ocr
# installed needed tess-data from tessdata_best repo
https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tessdata_best/archive/4.0.0.tar.gz
# 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

Build Flatpak locally

# install elementary-sdk and runtime for flatpak (version 6.0)
flatpak install io.elementary.Sdk
# clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/RajSolai/TextSnatcher.git TextSnatcher
# cd to dir
cd TextSnatcher
# run flatpak build script
sh fbuild.sh

Inspirations

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

Made with ❤️ for Linux