ianzhao/textshot

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

TextShot is a Python command-line tool that lets you draw a rectangle over any screen region and copies the recognized text to your clipboard using Tesseract OCR. It supports multiple languages and continuous capture at a set interval, and can be bound to a global hotkey.

Use cases

• copy text from a screenshot to clipboard
• extract text from part of the screen with ocr
• grab non-selectable text from images or videos
• run ocr on a screen region via a hotkey
• continuously ocr a screen area every few hundred milliseconds
• ocr text in multiple languages like english and french

When to choose

• you want quick, ad-hoc screen-region OCR with clipboard output
• you need multi-language OCR via Tesseract language packs
• you want a lightweight cross-platform tool bindable to a global hotkey

When to avoid

• you need high-accuracy OCR on complex documents or scanned PDFs
• you want a GUI application rather than a command-line workflow
• you cannot install Tesseract as a system dependency

Facets

cli-tool · maturity active

ocr cli image-processing computer-vision developer-tools windows python cli screenshot-ocr tesseract clipboard screen-capture hotkey command-line macos linux

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