Turn your screenshot/clipboard image into a .txt text file with Tesseract-powered OCR tool.
Note: I created this program as Windows-only for the moment being. However, it can be optimized for other platforms with the correct Tesseract OCR module downloaded. –arimanyus
Python 3.5+
- Tesseract binary
- PyTesseract
The program automatically grabs the image that the user has in clipboard.
- Please download the Teserract Binaries here, in accordance to your operating system.
- Install 'Pillow' module using pip:
pip install pillow - Install 'PyTesseract' module in your Python terminal via
pip install pytesseract
On running main.py, the program will grab the image that you have in your clipboard, save it as a PNG file titled 'defFile.png'. It'll then read its content, showcase in the console while also printing it as a .txt file named 'Output.txt'.
Tesseract recommends images above 300 dpi to function well. It's unlikely for your clipboard to encompass such images and therefore 100% accuracy is not guarenteed.
Windows 10 users can use Windows' inbuilt Snip & Sketch program (Win + Shift + S) to take screenshots and save them to clipboards. MacOS users can use the shortcut Alt + Shift + 4 to do the same.