normcap
OCR powered screen-capture tool to capture information instead of images (by dynobo)
Signalum
To explore creating an application that detects available connections at once from wifi and bluetooth (by bisohns)
| normcap | Signalum | |
|---|---|---|
| 18 | - | |
| 2,269 | 58 | |
| 4.6% | - | |
| 9.4 | 0.0 | |
| 3 days ago | almost 6 years 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
Signalum
Posts with mentions or reviews of Signalum.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects.
We haven't tracked posts mentioning Signalum yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing normcap and Signalum you can also consider the following projects:
pytesseract - A Python wrapper for Google Tesseract
pyocr
TextSnatcher - How to Copy Text from Images ? Answer is TextSnatcher !. Perform OCR operations in seconds on Linux Desktop.
EasyOCR - Ready-to-use OCR with 80+ supported languages and all popular writing scripts including Latin, Chinese, Arabic, Devanagari, Cyrillic and etc.