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TextSnatcher
textinator | TextSnatcher | |
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0.0 | 2.8 | |
4 months ago | about 1 month ago | |
Python | Vala | |
MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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textinator
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TextSnatcher: Copy text from images, for the Linux Desktop
I'm the author of Textinator [1] a similar utility for macOS that uses Apple's Vision framework [2] for doing the OCR natively. Modern versions of macOS have a similar ability to copy text from images directly but Textinator works on macOS back to 10.15 and simplifies the "take screenshot, copy text to clipboard" workflow.
[1] https://github.com/RhetTbull/textinator
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New MacOS app
Textinator which I wrote and is free & open source. Detects text in screenshots and copies the text to the clipboard. Sort of like Live Text in Monterey/Ventura but works on older Macs (Catalina+) and runs automatically in the background.
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Sunday Daily Thread: What's everyone working on this week?
On Python Bytes podcast #284 I heard about Text Sniper, a Mac app that allows you easily extract text from images and documents using screenshots (performs text recognition). It's a pretty slick app and I thought, "I can do that in Python" so I built Textinator, a Python clone of Text Sniper that does basically the same thing. MacOS only as it uses the Apple Vision framework to perform the text detection. Screencast demo here.
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?
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tesseract-ocr - Tesseract Open Source OCR Engine (main repository)
Openpass - A simple password generator that stores the user information in a sqlite3 databse.
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)
ClipMenu - A clipboard manager for Mac OS X
OCRmyPDF - OCRmyPDF adds an OCR text layer to scanned PDF files, allowing them to be searched
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nixpkgs-mozilla - Mozilla overlay for Nixpkgs.
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GameHub - All your games in one place