Run Tesseract OCR on clipboard contents.
Simply grab the latest release from the releases page:
https://github.com/amahta/clipboard_ocr/releases
As it is mentioned in the description of releases, Clipboard OCR depends on a set of well known libraries and programs.
Here is a list of them:
- Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributables
- Python (and pytesseract package in particular)
- Tesseract OCR
And here is where you can get them:
- https://aka.ms/vs/17/release/vc_redist.x64.exe
- https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.9.13/python-3.9.13-amd64.exe
- https://pypi.org/project/pytesseract/
- https://digi.bib.uni-mannheim.de/tesseract/tesseract-ocr-w64-setup-v5.2.0.20220712.exe
This application will automatically perform OCR on the contents of the clipboard.
For example, a typical use case on Windows would be to:
- Press WIN+SHIFT+S to snap a screenshot from a selected portion of the screen.
- Wait for the Clipboard OCR app to recognize it
- Click on the text in Clipboard OCR to automatically copy it to Clipboard
Hence, you'll end up with the actual text contents of whatever you snapped from the screen.
If everything is installed with the default settings, then chances are you don't need any configuration.
But if the app doesn't work or have used custom settings, then simply have a look at config.json file.
{
"python_command": "python",
"tesseract_path": "C:/Program Files/Tesseract-OCR/tesseract.exe",
"check_interval": 1500
}Here is a description of configurable parameters:
python_command must contain the command for Python.
You might want to provide an absolute path such as C:\Python3\python.exe or something like that.
tesseract_path is exactly what the title says.
If you have tesseract added to the path, then you can simply use tesseract for this parameter.
check_interval is the wait between checks of your clipboard, in milliseconds.