AppOcr

version: 1.0.1

A app in systray for mac to capture screenshot, read qrcode, read barcode, read data matrix, or use ocr to scan text.

Configuration

Default configuration is at $HOME/.config/appocr.toml

# where to save your screen shot
ScreenShotSaveDir = "/Users/username/Downloads"

# default space ocr  
OCREngine = "Tesseract"

# space ocr api key
SpaceOCRAPI = "apikey"

# config file path, if you want to use your own path, please set path of your own config file in the default config file first
ConfigFilePath = "/Users/username/.config/appocr.toml"

# the executable path of tesseract, if you want to use tesseract, this is necessary
TesseractExecutablePath = "/opt/homebrew/bin/tesseract"

# where to save temporary file
CacheDir = "/Users/tesseract/Library/Caches/com.appocr"

# which language you want to use in the ocr language. Sea "Languages" in the readme.md
[[OcrLanguage]]                   
  SpaceOCR = "chs"
  Tesseract = "chi_sim"

Install

Just copy the app to Applications folder.

To use OCREngine = "Tesseract", the Tesseract need to be installed explicitly.

brew install tesseract

Permission

The "Screen Recording" permission in the macos system Preference in the "Security & Privacy" is required.

Languages

Space OCR does not support multiple language, but you could set multiple OCR language by add entry in the OcrLanguage in the config file.

[[OcrLanguage]]
  SpaceOCR = "chs"
  Tesseract = "chi_sim"

[[OcrLanguage]]
  SpaceOCR = "eng"
  Tesseract = "eng"

SpaceOcr

• Arabic=ara
• Bulgarian=bul
• Chinese(Simplified)=chs
• Chinese(Traditional)=cht
• Croatian = hrv
• Czech = cze
• Danish = dan
• Dutch = dut
• English = eng
• Finnish = fin
• French = fre
• German = ger
• Greek = gre
• Hungarian = hun
• Korean = kor
• Italian = ita
• Japanese = jpn
• Polish = pol
• Portuguese = por
• Russian = rus
• Slovenian = slv
• Spanish = spa
• Swedish = swe
• Turkish = tur

Language used for Space OCR. If no language is specified, Chinese "chs" is taken as default.

Tesseract

• Afrikaans = afr
• Amharic = amh
• Arabic = ara
• Assamese = asm
• Azerbaijani = aze
• Azerbaijani - Cyrilic = aze_cyrl
• Belarusian = bel
• Bengali = ben
• Tibetan = bod
• Bosnian = bos
• Breton = bre
• Bulgarian = bul
• Catalan; Valencian = cat
• Cebuano = ceb
• Czech = ces
• Chinese simplified = chi_sim
• Chinese traditional = chi_tra
• Cherokee = chr
• Corsican = cos
• Welsh = cym
• Danish = dan
• German = deu
• Dhivehi = div
• Dzongkha = dzo
• Greek, Modern, 1453- = ell
• English = eng
• English, Middle, 1100-1500 = enm
• Esperanto = epo
• Math / equation detection module = equ
• Estonian = est
• Basque = eus
• Persian = fas
• Faroese = fao
• Filipino = fil
• Finnish = fin
• French = fra
• Frankish = frk
• French, Middle, ca.1400-1600 = frm
• West Frisian = fry
• Scottish Gaelic = gla
• Irish = gle
• Galician = glg
• Greek, Ancient, to 1453 = grc
• Gujarati = guj
• Haitian; Haitian Creole = hat
• Hebrew = heb
• Hindi = hin
• Croatian = hrv
• Hungarian = hun
• Armenian = hye
• Inuktitut = iku
• Indonesian = ind
• Icelandic = isl
• Italian = ita
• Italian - Old = ita_old
• Javanese = jav
• Japanese = jpn
• Kannada = kan
• Georgian = kat
• Georgian - Old = kat_old
• Kazakh = kaz
• Central Khmer = khm
• Kirghiz; Kyrgyz = kir
• Kurdish Kurmanji = kmr
• Korean = kor
• Korean vertical = kor_vert
• Lao = lao
• Latin = lat
• Latvian = lav
• Lithuanian = lit
• Luxembourgish = ltz
• Malayalam = mal
• Marathi = mar
• Macedonian = mkd
• Maltese = mlt
• Mongolian = mon
• Maori = mri
• Malay = msa
• Burmese = mya
• Nepali = nep
• Dutch; Flemish = nld
• Norwegian = nor
• Occitan post 1500 = oci
• Oriya = ori
• Orientation and script detection module = osd
• Panjabi; Punjabi = pan
• Polish = pol
• Portuguese = por
• Pushto; Pashto = pus
• Quechua = que
• Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan = ron
• Russian = rus
• Sanskrit = san
• Sinhala; Sinhalese = sin
• Slovak = slk
• Slovenian = slv
• Sindhi = snd
• Spanish; Castilian = spa
• Spanish; Castilian - Old = spa_old
• Albanian = sqi
• Serbian = srp
• Serbian - Latin = srp_latn
• Sundanese = sun
• Swahili = swa
• Swedish = swe
• Syriac = syr
• Tamil = tam
• Tatar = tat
• Telugu = tel
• Tajik = tgk
• Thai = tha
• Tigrinya = tir
• Tonga = ton
• Turkish = tur
• Uighur; Uyghur = uig
• Ukrainian = ukr
• Urdu = urd
• Uzbek = uzb
• Uzbek - Cyrilic = uzb_cyrl
• Vietnamese = vie
• Yiddish = yid
• Yoruba = yor

Language used for Tesseract. If no language is specified, Chinese "chs" is taken as default.