clipboard-ocr

Perform OCR (Optical Character Recognition) on image present on clipboard

current implementation requires xclip to be installed.
- On Arch Linux: sudo pacman -S xclip
- On Debian based distros (eg: Ubuntu): sudo apt install xclip
Currently supported OS: Linux

Usage

    pip install -r requirements.txt

copy portion of image you want to run OCR on, onto clipboard
run program.py
OCR will be generated and copied to your clipboard, paste in any text editor to verify

Upcoming fixes:

fix issue: will fail if latest clipboard entry is not an image
fix: don't create temporary files

Tips:

use flameshot or ksnip for your screenshot needs.
If you use KDE, you can set custom shortcuts to run this program whenever you press a keyboard shortcut. You can set this up in the KDE settings. (google KDE custom shortcuts)
- for other Desktop Environments, do some research.