I wanted to share a surprisingly elegant solution I found to copying text into the clipboard where for one reason or another it’s otherwise not possible.

  • motorondo@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Thanks for this!!

    I just realized I can use the following command to OCR a bitmap in the clipboard and put the text back into the clipboard.

    xclip -out -selection clipboard -t image/bmp
    | tesseract stdin stdout -l eng
    | xclip -in -selection clipboard

    This works in my linux VM (in Virtualbox on my work laptop) using bi-directional shared clipboard without touching my Windows software.

    Mind blown!!

  • Hexarei@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    This is gorgeous, I’ve used flame shot for years, and constantly use xclip, never once thought about sticking OCR in the middle.

    Awesome stuff.