Frog
TextSnatcher
| Frog | TextSnatcher | |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | 11 | |
| 481 | 1,213 | |
| 1.9% | - | |
| 8.8 | 2.8 | |
| 5 days ago | about 1 month ago | |
| Python | Vala | |
| MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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Frog
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TextSnatcher: Copy text from images, for the Linux Desktop
The similar app I am using is Frog (https://getfrog.app) with great sucesss.
- How about OCR support in new screenshot tool and loupe for gnome 43 (whenever it gets released)
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Best OCR tool that works as smooth as Frog from ElementoryOS
However i cannot build their package https://github.com/TenderOwl/Frog for some reason. I have to try to get it working.
TextSnatcher
- FLaNK AI Weekly 25 March 2025
- TextSnatcher: Copy text from images, for the Linux Desktop
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Blog(ish): So I switched to Arch for a month...
- https://github.com/RajSolai/TextSnatcher
- TextSnatcher: How to Copy Text from Images? Perform OCR operations in seconds on Linux Desktop.
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What are you working on [July 2022]
Thanks to Gtk4 support and packages available on macOS via homebrew. Today I was successful able to build .app for the app. You can track the progress here https://github.com/RajSolai/TextSnatcher branch 'macos-dev'
- I made a desktop popup dictionary for games and apps. It shows definitions on hover and allows you to create Anki cards.
- If you want to OCR your PDF, the fastest, easiest and less buggy tool out there is "pdfsandwich"
- TextSnatcher – An Easy to use OCR front end for GNU/Linux
- Copy Text from Images to Your Clipboard
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How can I do an OCR scan of a PDF that has human handwriting text?
You can do this from a desktop app like https://github.com/RajSolai/TextSnatcher
What are some alternatives?
zuckbot - A virtual reincarnation of Mark Zuckerberg encapsulated in a desktop application built on Python.
normcap - OCR powered screen-capture tool to capture information instead of images
easy-mqtt-handler - Easy MQTT Handler is a MQTT Client implemented in Python3 that will connect to a MQTT Broker, listening for freely configurable messages and reacting by executing arbitrary pre-defined commands. It comes with a Qt5-based GUI.
tesseract-ocr - Tesseract Open Source OCR Engine (main repository)
cozy - 🎧 Listen to audio books 📚 on Linux
PaddleOCR - Awesome multilingual OCR toolkits based on PaddlePaddle (practical ultra lightweight OCR system, support 80+ languages recognition, provide data annotation and synthesis tools, support training and deployment among server, mobile, embedded and IoT devices)
gtock - Fork of GNOME Task Scheduler
OCRmyPDF - OCRmyPDF adds an OCR text layer to scanned PDF files, allowing them to be searched
quicktile - Adds window-tiling hotkeys to any X11 desktop. (An analogue to WinSplit Revolution for people who don't want to use Compiz Grid)
nixpkgs-mozilla - Mozilla overlay for Nixpkgs.
chromecast_mpris - 📺 Control Chromecasts from Linux and D-Bus
GameHub - All your games in one place