normcap
OCR powered screen-capture tool to capture information instead of images (by dynobo)
cheat.sh
the only cheat sheet you need (by chubin)
| normcap | cheat.sh | |
|---|---|---|
| 18 | 144 | |
| 2,624 | 41,436 | |
| 1.3% | 0.3% | |
| 8.9 | 3.6 | |
| 19 days ago | 6 months ago | |
| Python | Python | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
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
cheat.sh
Posts with mentions or reviews of cheat.sh.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-22.
- Cheat.sh: the only cheat sheet you need
- Cheat.sh
- Cheat.sh/:Firstpage
- Chat.sh – curl almost anything and get a cheat sheet
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Ask HN: What are your go to shell one-liners?
curl https://cheat.sh/$1
- Show HN: Cheat.sh Client
- Cheatsheets over Curl
- Cheat.sh – Community Driven Documentation
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Should you add screenshots to documentation?
cheat.sh [0] has been a godsend when the man pages are too dense and I just want to use the tool and move on with my life.
[0] http://cheat.sh/
- Making Hard Things Easy
What are some alternatives?
When comparing normcap and cheat.sh you can also consider the following projects:
Signalum - To explore creating an application that detects available connections at once from wifi and bluetooth
navi - An interactive cheatsheet tool for the command-line
pyocr
tldr - Collaborative cheatsheets for console commands 📚.
pytesseract - A Python wrapper for Google Tesseract
cheat - cheat allows you to create and view interactive cheatsheets on the command-line. It was designed to help remind *nix system administrators of options for commands that they use frequently, but not frequently enough to remember.