Show HN: OCR-grab: Flameshot clone that adds OCR

Category: cli-tool

Tags: screenshot, ocr, clipboard

Score: 6.0/10 (Innovation: 5, Technical: 6, Documentation: 7, Utility: 6)

OCR-grab is a lightweight X11 screenshot utility that combines interactive region selection with instant OCR text extraction to clipboard, similar to Flameshot but with a unique focus on text capture. Written in C with GTK3 and Tesseract, it offers precise adjustment modes and clipboard integration for efficient text retrieval from screen regions.

Target audience: backend devs

Repository: https://github.com/talalalrwas/ocr-grab · C · GPL-3.0 · 1 stars

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