normcap
TextSnatcher
| normcap | TextSnatcher | |
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| 18 | 11 | |
| 1,702 | 1,210 | |
| - | - | |
| 9.3 | 2.8 | |
| 4 days ago | about 1 month ago | |
| Python | Vala | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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normcap
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TextSnatcher: Copy text from images, for the Linux Desktop
The workflow feels a bit more polished (Though also not perfect) and the repo is still active.
[1] https://github.com/dynobo/normcap
- FLaNK Stack Weekly for 30 April 2023
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NormCap: OCR powered screen-capture tool
https://github.com/dynobo/normcap#similar-open-source-tools
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How do you manage your notes/summaries from the things you learn?
Some sort of OCR — NormCap bound to a hotkey for general OCR and obisidian-ocr-plugin for Obsidian. Vital for tracking down screenshots of stuff.
- Gute Text zu Bild KI?
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Recommendations on OCR software?
Just for completeness: There's normcap, an OCR tool to copy text from the screen. It works right out of the box from what I tested, both from Flatpak and the AUR.
- Frog: OCR Tool for Linux
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Is there "Text Extractor" tool (from Windows Powertoys) equivalent in linux?
but i just found this https://github.com/dynobo/normcap from their readme, using tesseract as its backend, looks like nice replacement for text extractor.
- PowerToys Release v0.62
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?
pytesseract - A Python wrapper for Google Tesseract
tesseract-ocr - Tesseract Open Source OCR Engine (main repository)
textshot - Python tool for grabbing text via screenshot
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)
pyocr
OCRmyPDF - OCRmyPDF adds an OCR text layer to scanned PDF files, allowing them to be searched
Signalum - To explore creating an application that detects available connections at once from wifi and bluetooth
nixpkgs-mozilla - Mozilla overlay for Nixpkgs.
D3DShot - Extremely fast and robust screen capture on Windows with the Desktop Duplication API
GameHub - All your games in one place
pdf-scraper-with-ocr - This is a GUI for scrapping PDFs with the help of optical character recognition making easier than ever to scrape PDFs.
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