Clipboardee

Dependencies

• This project uses Tesseract OCR, an open-source Optical Character Recognition engine, licensed under the Apache License 2.0.

About

Usage of a clipboard (for example Win + Shift + S in Windows OS for snipping tool) to convert text from the screenshot to the symbolic text back to the clipboard overriding the screenshot.

Tesseract Installation Instructions

To use the OCR functionality in this application, you need to have Tesseract OCR installed on your system.

Below are the instructions to install Tesseract on both Windows and macOS platforms.

Windows

1. Download Tesseract Installer:

   • Visit the official Tesseract GitHub releases page:
     Tesseract at GitHub
   • Download the latest Windows installer (.exe).

2. Run the Installer:

   • Launch the installer and follow the installation steps.
   • During installation, make sure the option to add Tesseract to your system's PATH is selected (this will make it accessible from everywhere in the command line).

3. Verify Installation:

   • After installation, open Command Prompt and type the following to check if Tesseract is installed correctly:

     tesseract --version
     

   • If Tesseract is installed correctly, you will see the version number displayed.

MacOS

1. Install Homebrew (if you don't have it installed):

   • Open Terminal and run the following command to install Homebrew:

     /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"
     

• OR Homebrew package at GitHub

2. Install Tesseract Using Homebrew:

   • Once Homebrew is installed, run the following command in the Terminal:

     brew install tesseract
     

3. Verify Installation:

   • After the installation completes, verify the installation by typing the following command in Terminal:

     tesseract --version
     

   • If installed correctly, you should see the Tesseract version information.

4. Optional: Install Additional Languages:

   • If you need language support for OCR, you can install additional language packs using the following command:

     brew install tesseract-lang
     

5. Path to Tesseract:

   • By default, Tesseract is installed in /usr/local/bin/tesseract. You can verify the path by typing:

     which tesseract
     

Using Tesseract in Your Application

Tesseract PATHs for this applications are set to default and are NOT detected by default.

Installation

Go to Releases, choose the latest release and choose the corresponding file for your OS.