normcap
OCR powered screen-capture tool to capture information instead of images (by dynobo)
TextSnatcher
How to Copy Text from Images ? Answer is TextSnatcher !. Perform OCR operations in seconds on Linux Desktop. (by RajSolai)
| normcap | TextSnatcher | |
|---|---|---|
| 18 | 11 | |
| 2,269 | 1,340 | |
| 4.6% | 1.3% | |
| 9.4 | 2.8 | |
| 3 days ago | over 1 year ago | |
| Python | Vala | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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normcap
Posts with mentions or reviews of normcap.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-14.
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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
Posts with mentions or reviews of TextSnatcher.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-25.
- 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?
When comparing normcap and TextSnatcher you can also consider the following projects:
pytesseract - A Python wrapper for Google Tesseract
nixpkgs-mozilla - Mozilla overlay for Nixpkgs.
Signalum - To explore creating an application that detects available connections at once from wifi and bluetooth
ValaSimpleHTTPServer - Simple HTTP server made in vala
pyocr
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