TextSnatcher

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Features

• Multiple Language Support.
• Copy Text from images with a Drag.
• Drag over any Image and Paste.
• Fast and Easy to Use.
• This application uses the Tesseract OCR 4.x for the character
  recognition.
• Read more about Tesseract and Star ⭐️ Tesseract-Project.

Screencasts

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/54436424/152921719-228485ba-0d37-4b01-864e-63a2792248b5.mp4

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/54436424/152921736-c9567c9d-0afa-4c09-8706-6b2a1b6b635a.mp4

Screenshots

Support Me

Social Media Posts

LinkedIn Post on Why I created TextSnatcher

Dependencies

Ensure you have these dependencies installed

Runtime Dependency

• scrot
• tesseract-ocr
• tesseract language data
  arch repos
  debian repos

Buildtime Dependency

• granite
• gtk+-3.0
• gobject-2.0
• gdk-pixbuf-2.0
• libhandy-1
• libportal-0.5

Install, build and run

# clone repository
git clone https://github.com/RajSolai/TextSnatcher.git TextSnatcher
# cd to dir
cd TextSnatcher
# run meson
meson build --prefix=/usr
# cd to build, build and test
cd build
sudo ninja install && com.github.rajsolai.textsnatcher

Inspirations

• ReadMe: https://github.com/alainm23/planner
• Application Structure: https://github.com/alcadica/develop
• TextSniper (MacOS Application)

Made with ❤️ for Linux