OCR4Linux is a text extraction tool that captures a selected screen area, performs optical character recognition (OCR), and copies the extracted text to the clipboard.
It supports Wayland and X11 sessions, multiple OCR languages, image preprocessing, and interactive language selection.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Capture a selected screen area.
- Wayland support via grimblast.
- X11 support via scrot.
- Extract text using Tesseract OCR.
- Interactive language selection via rofi.
- Multi-language OCR with custom language combinations.
- Automatic language detection fallback.
- Image preprocessing to improve recognition accuracy.
- UTF-8 text output.
- Copy extracted text to the clipboard.
- Clipboard support for Wayland and X11.
- Configurable screenshot directory.
- Optional screenshot retention.
- Comprehensive logging system.
- Command-line interface.
Website: github.com/moheladwy/OCR4Linux
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Developer: Mohamed Hussein Al-Adawy
License: MIT License
OCR4Linux is written in Python. Learn Python with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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