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RajSolai/TextSnatcher has 1,392 GitHub stars and 52 forks. GitHot measured 0 stars in 24 hours. Last checked 2026-11-07 07:08 UTC. Last push 2024-03-20.

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How to Copy Text from Images ? Answer is TextSnatcher !. Perform OCR operations in seconds on Linux Desktop.

What you can do

  • Multiple Language Support.
  • Copy Text from images with a Drag.
  • Drag over any Image and Paste.
  • Fast and Easy to Use.

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Thanks for all the Support shown by Stars, Issues and PRs 💌 ! Currently I'm Saving money for my Linux PC, Soon (next month) the project will be back with updates and fixes

Vala Programming language Flatpak Build workflow

TextSnatcher

Copy Text from Images with ease, Perform OCR operations in seconds.

TextSnatcher OCR App for Linux
TextSnatcher - How to copy text from images, answer is TextSnatcher | Product Hunt

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Features

  • Multiple Language Support.
  • Copy Text from images with a Drag.
  • Drag over any Image and Paste.
  • Fast and Easy to Use.
  • This application uses the Tesseract OCR 4.x for the character recognition.
  • Read more about Tesseract and Star ⭐️ Tesseract-Project.

Screencasts

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https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/54436424/152921736-c9567c9d-0afa-4c09-8706-6b2a1b6b635a.mp4

Screenshots

TextSnatcher OCR App for Linux

TextSnatcher OCR App for Linux

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Dependencies

Ensure you have these dependencies installed

Runtime Dependency

Buildtime Dependency

  • granite
  • gtk+-3.0
  • gobject-2.0
  • gdk-pixbuf-2.0
  • libhandy-1
  • libportal-0.5

Install, build and run

# clone repository
git clone https://github.com/RajSolai/TextSnatcher.git TextSnatcher
# cd to dir
cd TextSnatcher
# run meson
meson build --prefix=/usr
# cd to build, build and test
cd build
sudo ninja install && com.github.rajsolai.textsnatcher

Inspirations

Made with ❤️ for Linux

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