OCR in screenshots

Robduarte

One thing that I have really been missing on my phone is the ability to select text from a screenshot. There are so many places where text isn't selectable to copy to the clipboard and the ability to do that from a screenshot is really useful. I turned off a bunch of AI stuff in PixelOS and I lost that ability. I'm wondering if anyone knows of some way that this can happen in GrapheneOS - maybe from a separate app? Having it done locally is ideal obv but honestly I would be okay with it being done via an online service - I'd just have to remember to not use it with anything sensitive.

Thanks
Rob

Dumdum

Robduarte
Try https://github.com/Akylas/OSS-DocumentScanner

rb411

Robduarte Ente Photos is a great photo management and photo backup service in general if you're interested in that and it does have text recognition built in, with all AI processing being done on device. Not sure how the functionality holds up against OSS Document Scanner that others are recommending, but Ente has been more than good enough for me.

DeletedUser765

Robduarte I've had good luck with fairscan and make a copy personally. Fully offline, both use tesseract I think.

Murcielago

Dumdum

+1 for OSS DocumentScanner.

After downloading the languages you need, the tool also works completely offline. Recognizing and extracting text works well, at least for the languages I use.

becomeparmesan

I find OCR https://github.com/SubhamTyagi/android-ocr a bit more lightweight and easier to use than OSS DocumentScanner

Arguable9798

Frankly, any apps mentioned here are either slow or unreliable for me.

There is a very good workarounds though (if you are willing to use Google Lens)

The app https://github.com/AKS-Labs/CircleToSearch has an accesibilty hook.

Meaning you can:

Download it
Remove network permission
Enable it as an accesibilty service
Go into settings and select search method "Google Lens"
Double click the status bar to trigger then select the section of the screen to OCR and then it'll redirect into Google lens immediately.

Speed is comparable to native Circle to search.