Just give me the text

I wanted to share a surprisingly elegant solution I found to copying text into the clipboard where for one reason or another it's otherwise not possible.

flameshot gui --raw \
  | tesseract stdin stdout -l eng \
  | xclip -in -selection clipboard
  • HexareiEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    This is gorgeous, I’ve used flame shot for years, and constantly use xclip, never once thought about sticking OCR in the middle.

    Awesome stuff.

  • motorondo@lemmy.ml
    2·
    1 year ago

    Thanks for this!!

    I just realized I can use the following command to OCR a bitmap in the clipboard and put the text back into the clipboard.

    xclip -out -selection clipboard -t image/bmp
    | tesseract stdin stdout -l eng
    | xclip -in -selection clipboard

    This works in my linux VM (in Virtualbox on my work laptop) using bi-directional shared clipboard without touching my Windows software.

    Mind blown!!