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Thank! I will review more closely at my PC. But at a high level I think we should make this an optional integration so tesseract is not a hard dependency. @mmahmoudian what are your thoughts? |
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@borgmanJeremy I remember this being discussed before. OCR is out of the scope of a screenshot tool and therefore it is better if we have this as a plugin. I think it worth the effort to push the plugin system forward. Update: I collected these: |
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Title: Add Tesseract OCR integration
Description:
This PR introduces integration with Tesseract OCR. Users can now copy text from a selected area to the clipboard using
SelectionTextTool. The tool automatically detects and uses all available language packs. Just use the button with tesseract iconChanges include:
selectiontexttool.cpp.This feature enables seamless text recognition from screenshots or selected regions.
Deployment
I use Linux Mint Cinnamon 22.2. You should to install the tesseract and, for example, the English package: