ScreenShootOCR

ScreenShootOCR is a Pythons script that integrates tesseract optical recogniton software with screenshooter.

Installation

Clone this repository

git clone https://github.com/WellIDKRealy/ScreenShootOCR.git

Get inside

cd ScreenShootOCR

Install python3 depedencies

pip3 install -r requirements.txt 

Install tesseract and language for it

#Example instalation commands
#arch linux based
sudo pacman -S tesseract
sudo pacman -S tesseract-data-eng #english language pack

#debian based
sudo apt-get install tesseract-ocr
sudo apt-get install tesseract-eng #english language pack

Install qt5

#Example instalation commands
#arch linux based
sudo pacman -S qt5

#debian based(im not sure about that)
sudo apt-get install qt5

IMPORTANT

Please make sure that xclip is installed! otherwise copy to clipborad wont work.

#Example instalation commands
#arch linux based
sudo pacman -S xclip

#debian based
sudo apt-get install xclip

#rhel based
yum install xclip

Usage

Take screenshot and copy OCR to clipboard.

ssocr

Take screenshot and copy OCR to clipboard with specified language.

ssocr -l de #set recogniton language to german

Take screenshot and save OCR output

ssocr -sv PATHTOFILE

Show screenshoted img after processing

ssocr -s

Options

#Output of ssocr --help
usage: Main.py [-h] [--version] [-l LANG] [-c CONFIG] [-g] [-t] [-tv THRESHOLDVAL] [-tmv THRESHOLDMAXVAL]
               [-tt THRESHOLDTECH] [-s] [-sh] [-sf SHARPFACTOR] [-mb] [-mbi MEDIANFILTERINTENSIFITY] [-sv SAVE]
               [-i INTERPRETER] [-clip] [-rfa REGEXFINDALL] [-rr REGEXREPLACE] [-rrs REGEXREPLACESTRING] [-col COLOUR]
               [-o OPACITY] [-p]

OCR integraded with screenshooter

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --version             show program's version number and exit
  -l LANG, --lang LANG  recogniton language (default: eng)
  -c CONFIG, --config CONFIG
                        pytesseract config (default: --oem 3 --psm 6)
  -g, --greyscale       disable greyscale (default: True)
  -t, --threshold       enable threshold (default: False)
  -tv THRESHOLDVAL, --thresholdval THRESHOLDVAL
                        set threshold value (default: 128)
  -tmv THRESHOLDMAXVAL, --thresholdmaxval THRESHOLDMAXVAL
                        set maximal treshold value (default: 255)
  -tt THRESHOLDTECH, --thresholdtech THRESHOLDTECH
                        set treshold technuiqe (default: 0)
  -s, --show            show postprocesed image (default: False)
  -sh, --sharp          enable image sharpering (default: False)
  -sf SHARPFACTOR, --sharpfactor SHARPFACTOR
                        sharpering factor (default: 2)
  -mb, --medianfilter   enable median filter (default: False)
  -mbi MEDIANFILTERINTENSIFITY, --medianfilterintensifity MEDIANFILTERINTENSIFITY
                        set median filter intensifity (default: 21)
  -sv SAVE, --save SAVE
                        set median filter intensifity (default: )
  -i INTERPRETER, --interpreter INTERPRETER
                        sends ocr result to interpteter. args works (default: )
  -clip, --clipboard    disable copy to clipboard (default: True)
  -rfa REGEXFINDALL, --regexfindall REGEXFINDALL
                        apply regex to output and get all containg matches (default: )
  -rr REGEXREPLACE, --regexreplace REGEXREPLACE
                        apply regex to output and replace matches with -rrs value (default: )
  -rrs REGEXREPLACESTRING, --regexreplacestring REGEXREPLACESTRING
                        replace with this string default:
  -col COLOUR, --colour COLOUR
                        set screen shooter colour default: red
  -o OPACITY, --opacity OPACITY
                        set screen shooter opacity default: 0.2
  -p, --print           prints output (default: False)

IMPORTANT COPY TO CLIPBOARD WONT WORK WITHOUT XCLIP

Contributing

Pull requests are welcome. For major changes, please open an issue first to discuss what you would like to change.

Please make sure to update tests as appropriate.

License

MIT