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RajSolai/TextSnatcher
How to Copy Text from Images ? Answer is TextSnatcher !. Perform OCR operations in seconds on Linux Desktop.
Thanks for all the Support shown by Stars, Issues and PRs ๐ ! Currently I'm Saving money for my Linux PC, Soon (next month) the project will be back with updates and fixes
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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 โญ๏ธ Tesseract-Project.
Screencasts
textsnatcher-eng.mp4
textsnatcher-tamil.mp4
Screenshots
Support Me
Social Media Posts
LinkedIn Post on Why I created TextSnatcher
Dependencies
Ensure you have these dependencies installed
Runtime Dependency
- scrot
- tesseract-ocr
- tesseract language data
arch repos
debian repos
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.textsnatcherInspirations
- ReadMe: https://github.com/alainm23/planner
- Application Structure: https://github.com/alcadica/develop
- TextSniper (MacOS Application)
Made with โค๏ธ for Linux
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Vala80.7%Meson12.9%Python4.6%CSS0.9%Shell0.9%
GNU General Public License v3.0
Created July 15, 2021
Updated March 3, 2026



