selvaprakash / copytext-screenshot

Tesseract OCR for Greenshot Screenshots in Windows

Tesseract for Greenshot

This is a simple python script that will send screenshots taken in Windows by Greenshot to Tesseract, and copy the data to the clipboard (dependency: pyperclip).

Instructions

• Download and Install Greenshot
• Download and Install Tesseract
• Edit tess-ocr.bat to include your full path to pythonw.exe, and to tess-ocr.py
• Right click on greenshot icon -> Configure External Commands
• New:
  • Name: Tesseract OCR
  • Command: full\path\to\tess-ocr.bat file
• Leave ""arguements"" as is: ("{0}")
• Right click on greenshot icon -> Preferences
  • Destination: Tesseract OCR
  • Destination: Save Directly (Optional, this will give you a .txt file of the same name in the same location as the .png)

This will copy the OCR generated text to the clipboard and save a .txt file