script for selecting a part of the screen for optical character recognition and putting it on the clipboard

ocr

#!/bin/bash
# Dependencies: tesseract-ocr imagemagick scrot xsel

SCR_IMG=`mktemp`
trap "rm $SCR_IMG*" EXIT

scrot -s $SCR_IMG.png
mogrify -modulate 100,0 -resize 400% $SCR_IMG.png #should increase detection rate
tesseract $SCR_IMG.png $SCR_IMG &> /dev/null
cat $SCR_IMG.txt | xsel -bi

exit