A tool which takes in an image in your clipboard and copies the text in the image back to your clipboard. Status shown using toaster notiications.
Suppose you want to copy text (for example: some code) from a source. But the text is within an image. Hence you won't be able to copy the text from that image. This tool solves that problem. You take a screenshot of the image on the screen with the text, then it will get copied on your clipboard (atleast that happens for most Windows devices. If that doesn't happen, then copy the image to the clipboard) Run the tool. The text from the image will be extracted and will be copied onto your clipboard.
Some uses for this tool is to copy documentation if present in an image.
Please set up python and pip before proceeding to the following steps
We will be using the Tesseract OCR to extract text from images.
download the latest version and set up Tesseract
pip install pytesseract
pip install pyperclip
pip install pillow
pip install win11toast