Linux-Visual-Search

Script to provide a functionality similar to Bing Visual Search to Linux

running the start.sh will take screenshot of your current screen and will open an image window.

click and drag the area you want to perform OCR and press C.

The text will be copied to your clipboard.

Note

In order to perform OCR with the image, you need to have tesseract OCR installed in your system.

Open your terminal and type the following command to install Tesseract-ocr

sudo apt-get install tesseract-ocr

Also make sure that you have python3 in your system and have the required modules installed.

After cloning the repo, In your terminal, type the following command to install the required modules

pip install -r requirements.txt

And don't forget to change the file paths to their full path [Absolute Path]

Tip

You can create a file and place it in /usr/bin directory and execute it as a terminal command.

Here's how you can do so.

Creating Files for scripts

cp start.sh vSearch
cp cropper.py cropper
cp copytext.py copytext

Converting cropper as linux command

Open the file cropper in nano editor

nano cropper

Now add the following line on top of the cropper file

#!/usr/bin/python3

Then move the cropper file to /usr/bin.

sudo cp cropper /usr/bin

Converting copytext as linux command

Open the file copytext in nano editor

nano copytext

Now add the following line on top of the cropper file

#!/usr/bin/python3

Then move the cropper file to /usr/bin.

sudo cp copytext /usr/bin

Changes to vSearch file

Before we convert vSearch into a linux command, we must do some changes to the vSearch file inorder to make use of cropper and copytext linux commands which we created now instead of cropper.py and copytext.py scripts.

To do so, open the file vSearch in nano editor

nano vSearch

Change python3 cropper.py & to cropper.
Change python3 copytext.py & to copytext

Converting vSearch as linux command

Open the file vSearch in nano editor

nano vSearch

Now add the following line on top of the cropper file

#!/usr/bin/bash

Then move the cropper file to /usr/bin.

sudo cp vSearch /usr/bin

Now you can use it as a terminal command.

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