Frog is an intuitive text extraction tool for the GNOME desktop.
The tool lets you quickly extract non-selectable text from anywhere: videos, PDFs, screencasts, webpages, photos, etc.
It aims to make it easy to extract non-selectable text as easy as taking a screenshot with a built-in snipping tool for Mac.
This is free and open source software.
Website: tenderowl.com/work/frog
Support: GitHub Code Repository
Developer: Andrey Maksimov
License: MIT License
Frog is written in Python. Learn Python with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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