pixelreader7's Introduction

📸 PixelReader7 - Extract Text from Everything

The app that lets you extract text from anything on your screen. Need to capture that juicy quote from a video, meme or an annoying popup? Here you go.

🔥 Features

Dark Theme: Because why not.
Real-Time Preview: See what you’re about to capture.
Super Fast: 50ms refresh rate. Useless but smoother.
Select Area: Easy area selection.

🚀 How to Use

Run the App: Execute Run.bat or python main.py.
Set Dimensions: Enter the X, Y, Width, and Height of the area you want to capture or use the area selector (less pain).
Select Area: Click 'Select Area' to visually choose your region.
Read Area: Click 'Read Area' to extract text from the area.
Save Text: A new window will pop up with your extracted text. Copy from it or click 'Save Text' insta save in root folder.
Open .txt: Click 'Extracted.txt' to open the text dump file that was created. Everything will the thrown into this file. No over-write. Just endless pasting.

🛠 Requirements

Tesseract (Mandatory for running on Windows. There are many other libraries for GNU/Linux distros)
Python 3.x
ttkbootstrap
pytesseract
Pillow

Install the dependencies:

pip install ttkbootstrap pytesseract pillow

⚡ Quick Start

Run.bat or

python main.py

📸 Screenshots

💡 Tips

Select Carefully: Make sure you’ve got the right area selected, or you might end up with your desktop wallpaper text.
Save Your Work: Don’t forget to click 'Save Text' unless you love repeating yourself.

🤖 Behind the Scenes

PixelReader7 uses Tesseract OCR to work its magic. Make sure you have tesseract.exe in the right spot, or the app will ask where you've installed that thing.