TextGrabber

A powerful screen capture utility that extracts text from non-copyable sources using OCR technology.

• Quick Screen Capture: Capture any portion of your screen with a simple hotkey (default: Ctrl+Shift+S)
• Smart Text Extraction: Advanced OCR processing using Tesseract
• System Tray Integration: Convenient access through system tray icon
  • Left-click to capture
  • Right-click for menu options
• Intelligent Text Processing:
  • Preserves file paths and URLs
  • Maintains special characters
  • Smart word spacing and formatting

• Python 3.12+
• Windows OS
• Tesseract OCR installed (default path: C:\Program Files\Tesseract-OCR\tesseract.exe)

1. Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/yourusername/TextGrabber.git
cd TextGrabber

2. Install required Python packages:

pip install -r requirements.txt

3. Install Tesseract OCR if not already installed:
   • Download from Tesseract Installer
   • Install to default location (C:\Program Files\Tesseract-OCR\)

1. Run the application:

python text_grabber.py

2. The app will minimize to system tray
3. Use the default hotkey (Ctrl+Shift+S) or left-click the tray icon to capture
4. Select the area containing text
5. Extracted text will be automatically copied to clipboard

Settings are stored in: %APPDATA%/TextGrabber/settings.json

Configurable options include:

• Hotkey combinations
• Tesseract OCR path
• Text processing preferences

• pytesseract: OCR engine interface
• Pillow: Image processing
• tkinter: GUI components
• keyboard: Hotkey management
• pystray: System tray integration
• pyperclip: Clipboard operations

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request.

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

• Tesseract OCR for the OCR engine
• All contributors and users of TextGrabber