Text from screenshot with tesseract

img_to_text.sh

#!/usr/bin/env sh

main() {
    # path to store tmp stuff
    dir=/tmp
    # tmp path of the img to process by tesseract
    out_img=$dir/tesseract_img.png
    # output text read from the img
    out_txt=$dir/tesseract_text

    # make a screenshot from selection
    maim -s $out_img

    # detect
    tesseract $out_img $out_txt

    # read the text
    cat $out_txt.txt | xclip -selection clipboard
}
main $@