https://funinkina.co.in/tags/kde/Recent content in Kde on funinkina's cornerHugoenWed, 12 Mar 2025 13:10:15 +0530https://funinkina.co.in/blog/building-ocr-in-plasmas-spectacle-using-c/Wed, 12 Mar 2025 13:10:15 +0530https://funinkina.co.in/blog/building-ocr-in-plasmas-spectacle-using-c/<h2 id="-the-why">🔍 The Why?</h2> <p>A while ago I made a python script that achieved the same goal but in GNOME desktop environment. You can read more about it <a href="https://funinkina.xyz/blog/enhancing-screenshots-in-gnome-with-ocr/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer nofollow">here</a> . That also uses <em>Tesseract</em> to extract the text and displays a GTK window to copy or save. But recently, I switched to KDE Plasma and I wanted to have the same functionality in Spectacle, the default screenshot tool in KDE Plasma. So I decided to write one for KDE Plasma too.</p>