The app that lets you extract text from anything on your screen. Need to capture that juicy quote from a video, meme or an annoying popup? Here you go.
- Dark Theme: Because why not.
- Real-Time Preview: See what you’re about to capture.
- Super Fast: 50ms refresh rate. Useless but smoother.
- Select Area: Easy area selection.
- Run the App: Execute Run.bat or
python main.py. - Set Dimensions: Enter the X, Y, Width, and Height of the area you want to capture or use the area selector (less pain).
- Select Area: Click 'Select Area' to visually choose your region.
- Read Area: Click 'Read Area' to extract text from the area.
- Save Text: A new window will pop up with your extracted text. Copy from it or click 'Save Text' insta save in root folder.
- Open .txt: Click 'Extracted.txt' to open the text dump file that was created. Everything will the thrown into this file. No over-write. Just endless pasting.
- Tesseract (Mandatory for running on Windows. There are many other libraries for GNU/Linux distros)
- Python 3.x
ttkbootstrappytesseractPillow
Install the dependencies:
pip install ttkbootstrap pytesseract pillow- Run.bat or
python main.py
- Select Carefully: Make sure you’ve got the right area selected, or you might end up with your desktop wallpaper text.
- Save Your Work: Don’t forget to click 'Save Text' unless you love repeating yourself.
PixelReader7 uses Tesseract OCR to work its magic. Make sure you have tesseract.exe in the right spot, or the app will ask where you've installed that thing.