TextSnatcher
TRex
| TextSnatcher | TRex | |
|---|---|---|
| 11 | 14 | |
| 1,213 | 1,121 | |
| - | 1.7% | |
| 2.8 | 5.6 | |
| about 2 months ago | about 1 month ago | |
| Vala | Swift | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | MIT License |
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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
TRex
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TextSnatcher: Copy text from images, for the Linux Desktop
Just three hours ago I switched back to Linux after a few years on MacOS. The only thing missing was the amazing text copy tool I was using, "Rex" [1]. What a coincidence to see this post on the front page a few hours later!
Side note, what a breath of fresh air Gnome on Fedora is!
[1] https://github.com/amebalabs/TRex
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Clean Text alternative / text tools to auto strip most formatting from copied text? (preferably free / low cost)
So I know there's things like PurePaste (which I use), and TRex (auto-ocr screenshotted area, it's fantastic). But those work best for short shorter snippets.
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How to show all app running on the menu bar?
Although if you don't need the screenshot functionality, Trex does OCR and is only about 3MB.
- Vizion - an app to copy any text from the screen.
- macOS Screenshot Tricks to Impress Your Co-Workers
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Tips – Preview the Mac app people forget about
To get this functionality everywhere, I’ve taken using the TRex app: https://github.com/amebalabs/TRex
I have it mapped to ctrl-alt-command-C. As more and more apps and webpages make text unselectable, it’s become invaluable. My favorite trick is to copy the URL when someone is screen sharing their browser in a virtual meeting!
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Which app you found lately that you can’t live without it since?
check out https://github.com/amebalabs/TRex
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TRex: Copy the Uncopyable
I just found a very nice app that you guys might like: https://github.com/amebalabs/TRex
- Less known macOS apps you will legitimately want to use every day
- Should I purchase an app from the Mac AppStore or the developers website?
What are some alternatives?
normcap - OCR powered screen-capture tool to capture information instead of images
macOCR - Get any text on your screen into your clipboard.
tesseract-ocr - Tesseract Open Source OCR Engine (main repository)
insect - High precision scientific calculator with support for physical units
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)
Copyfish - Copy, paste and translate text from images, videos and PDFs with this free Chrome extension
OCRmyPDF - OCRmyPDF adds an OCR text layer to scanned PDF files, allowing them to be searched
bitbar - Put the output from any script or program into your macOS Menu Bar (the BitBar reboot)
nixpkgs-mozilla - Mozilla overlay for Nixpkgs.
topgrade - Upgrade everything
GameHub - All your games in one place
alfred-ocr - Take a snapshot and recognize text