imgclip

Command line utility that extracts text from an image into the system clipboard. Uses the tesseract.js OCR wrapper

Installation

npm install -g imgclip

Notes

• Only compatible with Node v6.8.0+
• Downloads a lang.traineddata file needed to perform the image recognition into the current working directory. (use the --clean-up flag to remove it after execution)

Usage

Usage: imgclip PATH [options]

Options:

-h, --help             output usage information
-V, --version          output the version number
-l, --lang [language]  language of the text in the image.
-c, --clean-up         removes the generated language data file (.traineddata) after the image recognition job has finished
-p, --print            prints out the text in the image.

Full language list can be found here