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christofferaakre / flameshot-ocr

Use flameshot and various other command line utilities to instantly ocr and look up text
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copy to clipboard support #1

Closed ayushhroyy closed 1 year ago

ayushhroyy commented 2 years ago

hey, it currently does not work on arch linux and gives error Tesseract couldn't load any languages! + is copy to clipboard support something we could expect in the future?

christofferaakre commented 2 years ago

hey, it currently does not work on arch linux and gives error Tesseract couldn't load any languages! + is copy to clipboard support something we could expect in the future?

@ayushhroyy Which language option are you passing to the script? Can you try running tesseract manually from the command line? i.e. tesseract my_picture.png output.txt -l my_language Then cat output.txt. Assuming you still get the same error message, try running locate *.traineddata. You should see some output like this: 

/usr/share/tesseract-ocr/4.00/tessdata/eng.traineddata
/usr/share/tesseract-ocr/4.00/tessdata/jpn.traineddata
/usr/share/tesseract-ocr/4.00/tessdata/jpn_vert.traineddata
/usr/share/tesseract-ocr/4.00/tessdata/osd.traineddata

Try running tesseract with one of the language options listed there, so in my example I could try with -l eng for example. If that works, then probably you don't have the right .traineddata file for some reason. You can find them here: https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tessdata Just download the one you need, and place it in the same directory as the other .traineddata files (most likely /usr/share/tesseract-ocr/4.00/tessdata)

As for your question about copy to clipboard support, it already does that! The reason it is not copying anything to your clipboard is presumably that tesseract is failing. It should copy it to your clipboard once you get it working. Let me know if this helps or not :)