Fast OCR to clipboard
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.
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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.
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!!
Holler holler get doller. Thank you very much. Now I just need a way to use a custom image host.