TextSnatcher: Copy text from images, for the Linux Desktop

• TextSnatcher

  11 1,210 2.8 Vala

  How to Copy Text from Images ? Answer is TextSnatcher !. Perform OCR operations in seconds on Linux Desktop.

• Frog

  3 480 8.9 Python

  Extract text from any image, video, QR Code and etc. (by TenderOwl)

  

The similar app I am using is Frog (https://getfrog.app) with great sucesss.

• WorkOS

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  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• OCRmyPDF

  77 12,002 9.5 Python

  OCRmyPDF adds an OCR text layer to scanned PDF files, allowing them to be searched

  

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

• normcap

  18 1,687 9.4 Python

  OCR powered screen-capture tool to capture information instead of images

The workflow feels a bit more polished (Though also not perfect) and the repo is still active.

[1] https://github.com/dynobo/normcap

• TRex

  14 1,117 5.6 Swift

  Copy any text on your screen, stop retyping.

  

Just three hours ago I switched back to Linux after a few years on MacOS. The only thing missing was the amazing text copy tool I was using, "Rex" [1]. What a coincidence to see this post on the front page a few hours later!

Side note, what a breath of fresh air Gnome on Fedora is!

[1] https://github.com/amebalabs/TRex

• textinator

  3 165 0.0 Python

  Simple MacOS StatusBar / Menu Bar app to automatically detect text in screenshots

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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