EasyOCR: Ready-to-use OCR with 40 languages

Re:EasyOCR: Ready-to-use OCR with 40 languages by barbs on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @10:44PM (#23776474)

Has anyone made a desktop app with a really simple UI for detecting text in images? I'm thinking something that lives in the taskbar, lets you make a box around the text you want to read, and then returns it as plaintext?

In my job as a support engineer I sometimes get screenshots of complex technical configurations and end up having to type them in one character at a time, so this would be really handy.

Looks like maybe I could just create a wrapper around EasyOCR.

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Re:EasyOCR: Ready-to-use OCR with 40 languages by nelcevest on Thursday July 09, 2020 @04:00PM (#23784433)

I was looking exactly for the same thing, and found this wonderful script:

http://askubuntu.com/a/280713/81372

I put it in a custom keyboard shortcut, so I just press it, draw an onscreen rectangle around any non-selectable text, and in a few seconds it goes to the clipboard.

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Re:EasyOCR: Ready-to-use OCR with 40 languages by jackson1way on Thursday July 09, 2020 @04:06AM (#23777994)

I have the same problem every day. 20 years ago I used to have some tiny shareware tool for this but I lost it. Hope someone is able to recommend one!

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