https://github.com/nicooprat/alfred-ocr

Take a snapshot and recognize text
https://github.com/nicooprat/alfred-ocr

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Take a snapshot and recognize text

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/nicooprat/alfred-ocr
• Owner: nicooprat
• License: mit
• Created: 2018-11-09T08:59:01.000Z (about 6 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2024-08-06T11:02:36.000Z (3 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-11T20:17:11.106Z (about 1 month ago)
• Size: 164 KB
• Stars: 65
• Watchers: 4
• Forks: 7
• Open Issues: 6
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  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# Alfred Workflow OCR

Take a snapshot and recognize text

[![alfred-ocr.png](./alfred-ocr.png)](./alfred-ocr.png)

## Installation

1. [Install `tesseract` on your system](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/wiki#macos): `sudo port install tesseract` or `brew install tesseract` and then `brew install tesseract-lang` if you need additional langugages.

2. Download the [workflow](https://github.com/nicooprat/alfred-ocr/blob/master/OCR.alfredworkflow)

3. Double click to install it in Alfred

## Usage

Use the keywork `OCR`, take a screenshot, wait for the notification, paste the text. For better results, you can also add a language as optionnal argument like this: `OCR fra` ([full list of language codes here](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/blob/b67ea2c1a70c56053e142a5fb7cc18fb29cdc4b8/src/training/language-specific.sh#L21)).

[![Capture-d-e-cran-2018-11-09-a-10-06-07.png](https://i.postimg.cc/jdsggtDc/Capture-d-e-cran-2018-11-09-a-10-06-07.png)](https://postimg.cc/5jRSjcqQ)

## What's inside?

Just a tiny bash script:

```bash

export PATH="/opt/homebrew/bin:/usr/local/bin:${PATH}"

screencapture -i /tmp/ocr_snapshot.png

if [{query} = ""]; then

tesseract --dpi 300 /tmp/ocr_snapshot.png  stdout 2>&1

else

tesseract --dpi 300 /tmp/ocr_snapshot.png stdout  -l {query} 2>&1

fi

```

## Discussion

On Alfred forum: https://www.alfredforum.com/topic/12006-ocr-extract-text-from-snapshot/

## Credits

Inspired by the work of https://github.com/oott123/alfred-clipboard-ocr. Thanks [bergmul](https://github.com/bergmul) for his help.