tessen VS OCRmyPDF

Looks like a known issue.

https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/issues/2281

I'm considering adding support for keepassxc in tessen but autotype works only on wlroots based compositors like sway right now.

https://github.com/ayushnix/tessen/issues/19

This may not be as impressive but I wrote a script to eliminate one of the primary roadblocks I faced when I moved to Wayland on my Linux desktop — a script to copy and autotype password store amd gopass data, kinda like rofi-pass

https://github.com/ayushnix/tessen

tessen is a bash script to autotype and copy password store data on wayland compositors. The latest release of tessen adds support for gopass as well, although parsing YAML files isn't supported. If gopass files use the same format mentioned here, tessen should work fine.

I'd be willing to package it for Void Linux but I don't really have any experience with how Void Linux packages work. tessen is just a shell script so you can download it and place it in your $PATH and use it if you want.

As I've mentioned in the isse tracker here, the only thing that's missing from fuzzel is support for using a configuration file. If it gets that, it would replace every other launcher and dmenu program on Wayland for me and would also allow me to go ahead and brand fuzzel as the default dmenu backend for tessen.

I made this post a few weeks ago about tessen's initial release. Since then, I've added a few features that might've prevented rofi-pass users from switching to Wayland based compositors (I was one of them).

I ran into this problem as well when making tessen. fzf doesn't have a GUI like rofi, bemenu, and wofi do, so you can't use fzf to type in data in anything else besides the terminal in which it was opened, at least not without resorting to ugly hacks (which is what the swaymsg window move method is).

Support for wofi has been added as well

Try https://github.com/ocrmypdf/OCRmyPDF - it uses Tesseract behind the scenes and it absolutely brilliant.

I recommend running any such PDFs through OCRmyPDF.

https://github.com/ocrmypdf/OCRmyPDF

If by "like a photocopy" you mean the file contains images of text rather than text, the MacOS viewer presumably does OCR on the images. I don't know if there's a Linux document viewer with that capability built-in, but a quick search turned up the standalone tool OCRmyPDF.

For anyone interested I solved the problem by first ocr files through the free and open source software ocrmypdf avaible here

ocrmypdf is nice for stuff like that.

Use imagemagick to convert them to PDF and ocrmypdf to straighten and OCR. See this explanation.

Fair enough, maybe this might work for you, it should seperate the text from image anyway and if you have Adobe acrobat it should be able delete the background too with the edit function. It may already be able to do that if you haven't tried it