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| ====== OCR Screen or Image ====== | ====== OCR Screen or Image ====== | ||
| - | The //OCR Image// action allows you to extract the text from an image using OCR (Optical Character Recognition) (specifically using the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesseract_(software)|Tesseract OCR library]]). | + | The //OCR Image// action allows you to extract the text from an image using OCR (Optical Character Recognition) (specifically using either Apple Text Recognition (macOS 10.15+) or the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesseract_(software)|Tesseract OCR library]]). |
| {{ ocr-image.png?nolink&503x171 | OCR Image }} | {{ ocr-image.png?nolink&503x171 | OCR Image }} | ||
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| {{ ocr-clipboard-filter.png?nolink&537x428 | OCR Clipboard Filter }} | {{ ocr-clipboard-filter.png?nolink&537x428 | OCR Clipboard Filter }} | ||
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| + | Note that the Tesseract OCR software prefers black-on-white text, and while it will often work with white-on-black text, it will be more likely to fail in those cases. | ||
| ===== See Also ===== | ===== See Also ===== | ||
action/OCR_Image.txt ยท Last modified: 2023/09/12 23:07 by peternlewis
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