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		seltzered_ on Nov 22, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Frog: OCR Tool for Linux Oh nice. There hasn't been a good ocr screenshot tool with Wayland support yet so look forward to trying this. IIRC there's been.. Linux: dpScreenOCR - x11 only last I checked in and now Frog MacOS: screenotate, prizmo Windows: screenotate I don't get all the nitpick comments. OCR tools like this are extremely useful when dealing with excerpting text from certain websites (slack) or taking class notes from video.

holbue on Nov 22, 2022 [–]

Here's a list with more tools like this, in case you are interested: https://github.com/dynobo/normcap#similar-open-source-tools

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