From 8221e5a53332abf3c72031b70d66fa4481f81eb6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jean-Marie Mineau <jean-marie.mineau@protonmail.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2021 23:08:39 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] add script

---
 README.md         | 12 ++++++++++++
 screen_to_text.sh | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 28 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 README.md
 create mode 100644 screen_to_text.sh

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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+# Screen to text
+
+Take a screen shot, run OCR on it, and put the result to the clipboard
+
+Dependencies:
+ - spectacle
+ - tesseract
+ - xclip (for X, wayland might need more configuration)
+
+```
+sudo pacman -S spectacle tesseract tesseract-data-fra tesseract-data-eng tesseract-data-osd xclip
+```
diff --git a/screen_to_text.sh b/screen_to_text.sh
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+#!/bin/sh
+
+# Take a screen shot, run OCR on it, and put the result to the clipboard
+#
+# Dependencies:
+# - spectacle
+# - tesseract
+# - xclip (for X, wayland might need more configuration)
+#
+# `sudo pacman -S spectacle tesseract tesseract-data-fra tesseract-data-eng tesseract-data-osd xclip`
+
+TESS_LANG='fra+eng+osd'
+
+file='/tmp/img_'`head --bytes=20 /dev/urandom | md5sum | head --bytes=20`'.png'
+/sbin/spectacle --region --background --nonotify --output "$file"
+/sbin/tesseract "$file" - -l "$TESS_LANG" | /sbin/xclip -in -selection clipboard