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NormCap: OCR powered screen-capture tool

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Re: NormCap: OCR powered screen-capture tool

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Post by bigmattystyles »

bjoli wrote: post #2

I had my mind blown by the same functionality in Android. Being able to select text from an app in the app-switching context is amazing. I will definitely use this.

On Windows with the new PowerToys, win+shift+t does the same thing - works really well!

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/text-ext...

Re: NormCap: OCR powered screen-capture tool

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Post by yigitkonur35 »

It is very nice to have free alternatives to this kind of software. I wanted to ask because I already use terassect, the most basic feature I want in this type of software is that I want to be able to edit the text on the image I screenshot in order to use it while guiding designers, especially in design. I think teras supports this feature, but I have not seen it actively in any project other than Project Naptha, which is not an actively developed project in this regard. I would like to hear if there is a project you know about this and want to share.

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Post by m-p-3 »

csdvrx wrote: post #4

Is there anything on Linux not based on tesseract for the OCR? It's not very good. I miss being able to copy/paste from blurry or deformed screenshots of youtube on Windows.

Is there any development on Tesseract, or at least on updating the trained models out there? Just curious.

Re: NormCap: OCR powered screen-capture tool

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Post by mmcwilliams »

m-p-3 wrote: post #6
csdvrx wrote: post #4

Is there anything on Linux not based on tesseract for the OCR? It's not very good. I miss being able to copy/paste from blurry or deformed screenshots of youtube on Windows.

Is there any development on Tesseract, or at least on updating the trained models out there? Just curious.

I can't find anything backing this up at the moment but I was under the impression that Google had been upstreaming some development to the project. Open Sans recognition in particular got noticeably more reliable sometime in the last few years.

Re: NormCap: OCR powered screen-capture tool

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Post by chrispogeek »

m-p-3 wrote: post #6
csdvrx wrote: post #4

Is there anything on Linux not based on tesseract for the OCR? It's not very good. I miss being able to copy/paste from blurry or deformed screenshots of youtube on Windows.

Is there any development on Tesseract, or at least on updating the trained models out there? Just curious.

I was just using tesseract.js and the repo looks active. Tesseract is still crap, but it's the free crap, so I'll just put up with it. Grayscale seems to improve the OCR. I'm sure there are tons of other techniques to improve the result
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