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Mark an area of the screen, convert it to text and put the text in clipboard
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ocr-copy.sh
#!/bin/bash
sleep .1
scrot --select /tmp/ocr.png
tesseract -c page_separator="" /tmp/ocr.png /tmp/ocr-out
xclip -selection clipboard -i < /tmp/ocr-out.txt
rm /tmp/ocr.png
rm /tmp/ocr-out.txt
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