clipboard_ocr

Convert a screenshot to text directly from clipboard (tested on Windows)

How it works

The program continuously listens to keyboard hotkey event, when pressed it copies the image from clipboard and processes using OpenCV and applies tesseract OCR and copies the text result to clipboard again. The default hotkey is ctrl + shift + g.

Dependencies

• pillow
• keyboard
• pytesseract
• opencv-python
• numpy
• pandas
• pyperclip

Getting Started

1. Download & install Tesseract-OCR binary or compile it: https://tesseract-ocr.github.io/tessdoc/Downloads.html

1. Clone the repository

   git clone https://github.com/rokibulislaam/clipboard_ocr.git

2. cd into clipboard-ocr

   cd clipboard-ocr

3. Install pipenv (if you do not have it installed)

   pip install pipenv

4. Install the dependencies

   pipenv install

5. Start pipenv shell

   pipenv shell

6. Run the program in python

   python main.py

   Demo