QuickSnip is a Wayland utility for OCR and Google Lens search, built using Quickshell.
It is compositor-agnostic and works on any wlroots-based compositor (Hyprland, Sway, River, Niri, MangoWC, etc.). It’s meant to be fast, minimal, and stay out of your way.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- OCR: Select a region to extract text using Tesseract. It includes a cleanup script to fix the awkward line breaks and spacing that Tesseract usually spits out.
- Google Lens: Uploads a cropped JPEG directly to Lens using a form injection hack. This avoids using third-party image hosts and is significantly faster.
- Selection UI: Uses fragment shaders for background dimming and spring physics for the selection box. You get precisison crosshairs while hovering and fluid animations while dragging.
- Low Overhead: This isn’t a daemon. The process only spawns when you trigger the keybind, performs the capture/OCR, and kills itself immediately after.
- Compositor Support: Works on any compositor that supports wlr-layer-shell and wlr-screencopy (standard wlroots protocols). This includes Hyprland, Sway, River, Niri, MangoWC, and others.
Website: github.com/Ronin-CK/QuickSnip
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Developer: Ronin-CK
License: MIT License
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