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

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Thanks for all the Support shown by Stars, Issues and PRs 💌 ! Currently I'm Saving money for my Linux PC, Soon (next month) the project will be back with updates and fixes

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TextSnatcher

Copy Text from Images with ease, Perform OCR operations in seconds.

TextSnatcher OCR App for Linux
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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

textsnatcher-eng.mp4
textsnatcher-tamil.mp4

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TextSnatcher OCR App for Linux

TextSnatcher OCR App for Linux

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Dependencies

Ensure you have these dependencies installed

Runtime Dependency

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

Made with ❤️ for Linux