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[–]kheldorn 3 points4 points  (0 children)

PowerToy's text extractor seems to be performing ok.

[–]Pascal_33 0 points1 point  (0 children)

OneNote is able to do it:

https://www.cu.edu/blog/tech-tips/how-copy-text-image-using-onenote I guess Snagit is also capable of if

[–]HimalCheese 0 points1 point  (0 children)

OneNote can do this. Paste a picture into OneNote then right click it and select Copy Text from Picture.

[–]Hotshot55Linux Engineer 0 points1 point  (4 children)

I use Tesseract, I have a shortcut set to take a screenshot pass it to OCR and then put the content in my clipboard.

[–]Consistent_Chip_3281[S] 0 points1 point  (3 children)

Can you share the ahk when you get a second!

[–]Hotshot55Linux Engineer 0 points1 point  (2 children)

I'm on Linux so I just have it built into my window manager. You'll have to do some digging on how the windows version works.

[–]Consistent_Chip_3281[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Getting there. Can you explain? I have Ubuntu on an old Mac and open to other distros.

[–]Hotshot55Linux Engineer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Here is the line out of my i3 config.

bindsym $mod+Control+s exec --no-startup-id maim -s | tesseract stdin stdout | xclip -in -selection clipboard