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lazyadmin : testing KDE’s Spectacle for OCR of images, without installing KDE

Very cool that KDE Plasma 6.6 includes Spectacle, a screenshot application, which can perform OCR on images. See the demonstration video in the last web-link.

Of course I wanted to try this as soon as possible. But how to get the brand new Plasma 6.6 ? And can Spectacle be used on a non-KDE desktop ?

For Debian, Linux Mint and Ubuntu there appears no option to have Spectactle

with OCR installed with an easy option. No Flatpak, no Snap and no AppImage to be found. And Debian Unstable had a 6.5.x version. I can imagine it will not take very long before 6.6.x When I wanted to test this I didn’t find out when OCR support was added to which Spectacle version, but as you can see in this interesting thread (with several script suggestions which may work for other screen shot programs!) it seems 6.5.3 may have it as well.

I decided to go for ArchLinux and installed Spectacle from Plasma 6.6 without too many KDE dependencies, and installed tesseract with a few tesseract language packs. When I tried to run it on GNOME desktop it gave an error saying that to use Spectacle on Wayland it needs KDE’s Kwin window manager.

Because I didn’t want to install more of KDE I went for Cinnamon desktop and there it worked very fine. Impressive and very useful for long texts from images.

The forum thread mentioned above also shows a comment about this software Normcap, available for Linux, Windows, MacOS.

#NormCap - Un #OCR gratuit pour #capturer directement le #texte, sans besoin de faire des #captures d’ #écran intermédiaires inutiles.
#NormCap est basé sur #Tesseract, le moteur OCR #opensource #foss de #Google qui reconnaît plus de 100 langues.

https://korben.info/normcap-ocr-gratuit-capture-texte-directement.html

#NormCap is a very handy #opensouce OCR tool. https://dynobo.github.io/normcap/

👨‍💻🐍 #NormCap – безкоштовна #Python утиліта для розпізнавання тексту. Працює під #Windows, #Mac та #Linux.

🔗GitHub/Інструкція https://github.com/dynobo/normcap

Can't Ctrl+C something because it's baked to pixels? Now you can!

NormCap is an unusual screen capture tool. It doesn't capture images, but extracts *text* from a selected area of your screen.

https://dynobo.github.io/normcap/

#Productivity #OCR #ScreenCapture #Screenshot #TextCapture #NormCap #ImageToText

Can't Ctrl+C something because it's baked to pixels? Now you can!

NormCap is an unusual screen capture tool. It doesn't capture images, but extracts *text* from a selected area of your screen.

https://dynobo.github.io/normcap/

#Productivity #OCR #ScreenCapture #Screenshot #TextCapture #NormCap #ImageToText

Can't Ctrl+C something because it's baked to pixels? Now you can!

NormCap is an unusual screen capture tool. It doesn't capture images, but extracts *text* from a selected area of your screen.

https://dynobo.github.io/normcap/

#Productivity #OCR #ScreenCapture #Screenshot #TextCapture #NormCap #ImageToText

Can't Ctrl+C something because it's baked to pixels? Now you can!

NormCap is an unusual screen capture tool. It doesn't capture images, but extracts *text* from a selected area of your screen.

https://dynobo.github.io/normcap/

#Productivity #OCR #ScreenCapture #Screenshot #TextCapture #NormCap #ImageToText

Can't Ctrl+C something because it's baked to pixels? Now you can!

NormCap is an unusual screen capture tool. It doesn't capture images, but extracts *text* from a selected area of your screen.

https://dynobo.github.io/normcap/

#Productivity #OCR #ScreenCapture #Screenshot #TextCapture #NormCap #ImageToText

Voici une liste non exhaustive de #logiciels #libres (ou presque) que j'utilise fréquemment :

- #OpenBoard: Logiciel tableau blanc interactif. http://www.openboard.ch/
- #GIMP: Éditeur d'images open-source. https://www.gimp.org/
- #Shotcut: Montage vidéo libre. https://www.shotcut.org/
- #OBS: Streaming et enregistrement vidéo. https://obsproject.com/
- #LibreOffice: Suite bureautique complète. https://www.libreoffice.org/
- #LaTeX/#Miktex/TexStudio: Composition de documents. https://miktex.org/ ; https://www.texstudio.org/
- #VLC: Lecteur multimédia universel. https://www.videolan.org/vlc/
- #Normcap: Capture de texte sur écran. https://dynobo.github.io/normcap/

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#NormCap (an OCR-powered screen capture tool) saved me a lot of time today. #FOSS

Une petite démo vidéo de #NormCap

Très pratique pour copier un texte lorsque celui ci est au "format image".

Lien vers la page du logiciel : https://dynobo.github.io/normcap/

Un petit rappel sur l'appli :
#NormCap

Une petite appli d' #OCR bien pratique pour extraire du texte d'une image ou simplement d'un texte (enfin de n'importe quelle zone de #texte sur votre écran).

Elle s'offre régulièrement des mises à jour :
https://dynobo.github.io/normcap/
NormCap v0.4.2
OCR-powered screenshot tool to capture text instead of images.

#Reconnaissance #Optique de #Caractères

@unpied #NormCap peut vous aider à vous faire gagner du temps là dessus. 😉
https://dynobo.github.io/normcap/