josh- / aristocrat

Aristocrat is a menu bar utility that allows you to decode barcodes and OCR text on your screen.

Aristocrat

Aristocrat is simple utility that allows you to decode barcodes on your screen and read the text in images and scanned PDFs.

After choosing "Capture Screen..." in the Aristocrat menu bar, select an area of your screen (which can be done through a system-wide hotkey) and Aristocrat works its magic.

Installation

Requirements

• OS X 10.10 or later

Development

1. Fetch submodules (if the repo hasn't been cloned with --recursive)
   • git submodule update --init --recursive
2. Install dependencies
   • With carthage installed, run the following in the repository's directory:

carthage bootstrap --platform mac

TODO

• Allow users to tailor the recognition (ie. changing tesseract control parameters) to favour words/numbers/etc
• Support languages other than English
• Asynchronous barcode detection and OCR
• Ability to edit the resulting text

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2017 Josh Parnham

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

aristocrat's Issues

Aristocrat crashes in Mojave

I have been using Aristrocrat and loving it throughout. On Mojave, however, it just shuts down for some reason as soon as you try taking a screenshot. I have not seen this addressed anywhere, so I thought I'd raise this. Thanks for the great work!