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yjftsjthsd-h on Nov 25, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Are We Wayland Yet?

> my shortcut for OCR'ing text on the screen

Would you be willing to share that? Pretty please?

htns on Nov 25, 2019 [–]

I don't have the exact command at hand, but it just uses tesseract. Something like "import - | tesseract <whatever options for language and page format> | xclip". The accuracy is not amazing by any means.

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