Script to copy text from screen bitmap.

screen_text_copy

#!/bin/sh

# Written by u/QazCetelic licensed under GPL3

if ! which spectacle > /dev/null; then
    kdialog --sorry "spectacle, the required screenshotting tool, is not installed."
    exit 1
fi

if ! which tesseract > /dev/null; then
    kdialog --sorry "tesseract, the required OCR package, is not installed."
    exit 1
fi

screenshot_tempfile=$(mktemp)
spectacle -brn -o $screenshot_tempfile
text_tempfile=$(mktemp)
tesseract $screenshot_tempfile $text_tempfile
rm $screenshot_tempfile

result_text=$(cat $text_tempfile.txt)
rm $text_tempfile.txt

echo $result_text | xclip -selection clipboard