TextSnatcher
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| TextSnatcher | Replay | |
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| 11 | 2 | |
| 1,213 | 153 | |
| - | 1.3% | |
| 2.8 | 8.4 | |
| about 2 months ago | 3 days ago | |
| Vala | Vala | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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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
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What are some alternatives?
normcap - OCR powered screen-capture tool to capture information instead of images
appcenter - Pay-what-you-can app store for elementary OS
tesseract-ocr - Tesseract Open Source OCR Engine (main repository)
tuner - GNU/Linux app to discover and play internet radio stations
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)
pinit - Pin portable apps to the launcher
OCRmyPDF - OCRmyPDF adds an OCR text layer to scanned PDF files, allowing them to be searched
mwptools - ground station, mission planner and tools for inav and multiwii-nav
nixpkgs-mozilla - Mozilla overlay for Nixpkgs.
peek - Simple animated GIF screen recorder with an easy to use interface
GameHub - All your games in one place
Akira - Native Linux App for UI and UX Design built in Vala and GTK