screen-ocr v1.0.1

screen-ocr v1.0.1

Hotkey-triggered screen region OCR with text-to-speech for Linux. Designed for visual novels on SteamDeck: select the dialogue text box once, then press a single key for each new line to OCR it, copy to clipboard, and hear it read aloud. Fully offline -- no cloud services, no API keys.

Install

Linux (x86_64 / aarch64)

ARCH=$(uname -m)
curl -LO https://github.com/Gofer59/tools/releases/download/screen-ocr-v1.0.1/screen-ocr-1.0.1-${ARCH}-linux.tar.gz
curl -LO https://github.com/Gofer59/tools/releases/download/screen-ocr-v1.0.1/screen-ocr-1.0.1-${ARCH}-linux.tar.gz.sha256
sha256sum -c screen-ocr-1.0.1-${ARCH}-linux.tar.gz.sha256
tar xzf screen-ocr-1.0.1-${ARCH}-linux.tar.gz
cd screen-ocr-1.0.1
bash install.sh

Verify checksums

Each archive ships with a matching .sha256 file.

sha256sum -c screen-ocr-1.0.1-x86_64-linux.tar.gz.sha256   # Linux/macOS

Get-FileHash screen-ocr-1.0.1-x86_64-windows.zip -Algorithm SHA256   # Windows