https://github.com/desteves/screentext

An easy way to extract text from screenshots via OCR.
https://github.com/desteves/screentext

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An easy way to extract text from screenshots via OCR.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/desteves/screentext
• Owner: desteves
• Created: 2017-02-17T19:38:41.000Z (almost 8 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2022-01-26T02:26:15.000Z (about 3 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2023-08-13T14:53:48.745Z (over 1 year ago)
• Language: AppleScript
• Size: 4.88 KB
• Stars: 1
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 1
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  • Readme: README.md

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# screentext

An easy way to extract text from screenshots via OCR. 

Every time you take a screenshot, it gets send to an OCR and the parsed results are saved as ORIGINAL_FILENAME.json in the same directory

## Reqs

- OCR API Key. Get yours at http://www.ocrwebservice.com/account/signup

- jq.  `brew install jq` or see https://stedolan.github.io/jq/download/ if on a different OS.

If using the applescript, then:

- Mac

- Internet access when taking the screenshot

Note: I'm running the shell script via applescript folder actions but it can also be set up via a cron job, run it in terminal, or whatever works for ya ;)

## Install

- Edit "Image - Convert to Text.scpt" to point to your shell script location! (Line 11)

- Copy "Image - Convert to Text.scpt" to "/Library/Scripts/Folder Action Scripts"

- Find the directory where your screenshots are saved and add the apple script folder action.

- Create a file named `env-vars` in the same directory as the shell script. It contains your OCR_API_KEY var as `export OCR_API_KEY=YourAPIKeyGoesHere`

## Todo

- Investigate other third party OCRs as the current OCR call doesn't seem to be as accurate..

- Make more generic and update the applescript