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April 13, 2020 15:00
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Script to extract text from a screen area from https://askubuntu.com/questions/280475/how-can-instantaneously-extract-text-from-a-screen-area-using-ocr-tools
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| #!/bin/bash | |
| # Dependencies: tesseract-ocr imagemagick scrot xsel | |
| SCR_IMG=`mktemp` | |
| trap "rm $SCR_IMG*" EXIT | |
| /usr/bin/scrot -s $SCR_IMG.png | |
| /usr/bin/mogrify -modulate 100,0 -resize 400% $SCR_IMG.png #should increase detection rate | |
| /usr/bin/tesseract $SCR_IMG.png $SCR_IMG &> /dev/null | |
| cat $SCR_IMG.txt | /usr/bin/xsel -bi | |
| exit |
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This is not my own work, but from the above post. I have found it very useful and now adapted it for some other scripts.