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Take a screenshot and copy its text content to the clipboard. Works on Windows, macOS, and most modern Linux distros.
textshot -h
prints the available command line options:
usage: textshot [-h] [-i INTERVAL] [langs]
Take a screenshot and copy its text content to the clipboard.
positional arguments:
langs languages passed to tesseract, eg. "eng+fra" (default: eng)
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-i INTERVAL, --interval INTERVAL
select a screen region then take textshots every INTERVAL milliseconds
Basic usage: textshot
opens an overlay where a rectangle can be drawn around the text to be copied.
Alternate languages: textshot eng+fra
specifies use of English as the primary language and French as the secondary language. Make sure that the appropriate data files for Tesseract are installed for other languages. A list of all supported languages can be found here.
Continuously copy text content: textshot --interval 200
draw a rectangle at a screen region then copy text from it every 200ms.
It is recommended to attach a global hotkey to this tool, so you can run it without opening a console and typing in the command.
On Windows, one can accomplish this by using an AutoHotkey script; textshot.ahk
contains a sample AHK script that can be used.
On Ubuntu, open the Keyboard Settings, which shows you all the Gnome shortcuts. At the bottom there is a +
button to add your own shortcuts. Click it and set the command to textshot
. In case you are using a virtual environment, the textshot
path above should point to the environment's textshot
.
The process on other operating systems can be found by searching how to run a shell command with a keyboard shortcut.
tesseract
can be reached from the command line by adding the directory to your system path.pip
$ pip install textshot
$ textshot
You may wish to use a virtual environment if the dependencies conflict with others on your machine.
git clone https://github.com/ianzhao05/textshot.git
cd
into it: cd textshot
pip install .
(for development, you may install with pip install -e .
which will allow you to test your modifications without reinstall)textshot
@rigred has added this to the AUR, so Arch Linux users can install the package textshot-git
with their AUR helper. For example, yay -S textshot-git
. This may not be up to date, so if you encounter issues, use the normal installation method above.
You may need to give permission to capture the screen. You can do so by going to System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Privacy > Screen Recording, then checking the box for Terminal/iTerm.
If the text shows up correctly in the notification, but you cannot paste it, install xclip
(e.g. with sudo apt install xclip
).