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- Updated
- 2023-02-26
- Anki versions
- 2.1.16~
- Description language
- en
pasteOCR
AnkiWeb addon 1746010116
Pastes text from images in the clipboard into Anki using Tesseract OCR, with a button and keyboard shortcut.
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Maintenance
abandoned
- Last update or commit was 981 days before the snapshot (2024-01-24).
GitHub
- Repository
- mmaaz-git/anki-pasteocr · more by mmaaz-git
- Stars
- ⭐ 6 · forks 3 · open issues 7
- Last commit
- 2023-02-26
- License
- GPL-3.0
- Languages
- Python
- Tests
- 0
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| Min Anki | Max Anki | Updated |
|---|---|---|
| 2.1.0 | 2.1.16+ | 2023-02-26 |
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README
pasteOCR - an Anki addon
This is an addon for the flashcard program Anki which allows you to paste images as text using optical character recognition (OCR).
It makes using screenshots of lecture slides or textbooks to make cards a breeze!
Usage
Once installed, you will notice a button on the left.
If you have an image in your clipboard, say after taking a screenshot, clicking the button will extract text from the image and paste it.
You can also use the keyboard shortcut for convenience: Ctrl + Alt + V on Windows or Cmd + Alt + V on Mac.
Installation
pasteOCR uses the Tesseract OCR engine, a powerful OCR engine currently maintained by Google. More on Tesseract here.
If you are using Windows, the Tesseract binaries are included with the addon.
If you are using Mac OSX, you will have to install Tesseract to your computer. The easiest way to do this is to install Homebrew. Open the terminal and run the following command:
/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install.sh)"
Once that's installed, run the following command:
brew install tesseract
Once Tesseract is ready to go, you can install the addon to Anki within the program, using the installation code: 1746010116.
Attributions
- This addon depends on the Tesseract engine, distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. Link.
- I benefitted enormously from the code provided by Chris Culhane for his AnkiOCR addon (github) while figuring out some quirks with Tesseract.
- The icon for the button is courtesy of Flaticon.com.
License
This code is distributed under the GNU General Public License v3.0.