This tool gives users the ability to take a screenshot and copy to the clipboard the text content of the screenshot.
Running textshot.py will open an overlay over the screen, where a rectangle can be drawn over the portion of the screen containing the text the user wishes to copy.
It is recommended to attach a global hotkey to this tool.
On Windows, one can accomplish this by using an AutoHotkey script; textshot.ahk contains a sample AHK script that can be used.
On Ubuntu, open the Keyboard Settings, which shows you all the Gnome shortcuts. At the bottom there is a + button to add your own shortcuts. Click it and set the command to /usr/bin/python3 <path-to-textshot.py>. In case you are using a venv, the python3 path above should point to the venv's python3 instead of the global python3.
- Install Python 3
- Clone this repository, and
cdinto it - (Optional) Create a virtual environment, for example with
python -m venv .venv - Install the required packages with
pip install -r requirements.txt - Install Google's Tesseract OCR Engine, and ensure that
tesseractcan be reached from the command line by adding the directory to your system path.