ianzhao/textshot
Python CLI tool that captures a screen region and extracts its text content using Tesseract OCR.
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TextShot is a cross-platform screenshot text extraction utility that lets users draw a rectangle around on-screen text and copies the recognized text to the clipboard. It wraps Tesseract as its OCR engine, supports multiple languages by passing language codes like ’eng+fra’ to Tesseract, and can continuously capture a region at a set interval.
Frequently asked
- What is ianzhao/textshot?
- Python CLI tool that captures a screen region and extracts its text content using Tesseract OCR.
- Is textshot open source?
- Yes — ianzhao/textshot is open source, released under the MIT license.
- What language is textshot written in?
- ianzhao/textshot is primarily written in Python.
- How popular is textshot?
- ianzhao/textshot has 1.8k stars on GitHub.
- Where can I find textshot?
- ianzhao/textshot is on GitHub at https://github.com/ianzhao/textshot.