wclip-ocr

wclip-ocr is a console app for Wayland that can extract text from images stored in clipboard.

Dependencies

1. wl-clipboard
2. tesseract
3. pip
4. python

Installation

1. Install all dependencies
2. Clone the repository and cd into it

git clone https://github.com/fib-nm/wclip-ocr.git
cd wclip-ocr

3. Run build.sh script

./build.sh

After running the script you will have binary wclip-ocr in wclip-ocr.

Usage

Launch wclip-ocr script.

./wclip-ocr

To set the language, type its name in the command line and press Enter (names of the available languages are printed when the command starts).

To extract text from image in the clipboard just press Enter.

To close application, press Ctrl+D.

Tips

Since program uses tesseract for OCR, to get new languages you will need to install tesseract-data-lang packages from your system's repository.

Making binary globally callable

If you don't want to write full path to the binary every time you use the program, you can add alias for it to your .bashrc file:

alias ocr='/path/to/wclip-ocr/wclip-ocr'