gnome-screenshot-ocr

A Gnome Shell extension that passes screenshots through an OCR engine and places the text on the clipboard.

Usage

To use, simply use the print screen key (or whatever shortcut currently takes screenshots).

Select the “<>” icon, and any text appearing in the image and detected by the OCR will be copied onto the clipboard.

To disable / enable languages and determine their OCR priority, you can edit the settings using the extension manager.

Installation

Requires tesseract, which may be installed via sudo apt install tesseract-ocr libtesseract-dev

May be installed by running gnome-extensions install --force screenshot-ocr.zip