fishy-max/screen-snip-ocr
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What it is
Windows desktop utility that lets the user select a rectangular screen region, captures its pixels, and extracts the text with Tesseract OCR. Behavior is configured through a YAML file, with multi-monitor selection and debug dumps of captured regions. Can run from Python source…
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Windows users who need to copy text from screen regions, and Python developers who want a snipping tool with OCR they can run from source or package with PyInstaller
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