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dpscreenocr
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danpla / dpscreenocr

dpscreenocr

A program to recognize text on the screen

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What it is

A program to recognize text on the screen

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

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Also in these discussions

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 1:49:46 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by month2 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2022-07-17 10:15:43 UTC to 2024-01-24 13:58:07 UTC.

012022-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsJul 20222022-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsApr 20232023-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsJan 2024

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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Jul 20222022-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-08-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Aug 20222022-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-09-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 20222022-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-10-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 20222022-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-11-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 20222022-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-12-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 20222022-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-02-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 20232023-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-03-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 20232023-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-04-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 20232023-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-05-01 00:00:00 UTC000
May 20232023-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-06-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 20232023-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-07-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 20232023-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-08-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 20232023-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-09-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 20232023-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-10-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 20232023-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-11-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 20232023-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-12-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 20232023-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-02-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

2 sources
danpla·Jan 24, 2024
dpScreenOCR is a free, open-source, and cross-platform optical character recognition tool with support for more than 100 languages. dpScreenOCR works is like this: you select an area on the screen using a keyboard shortcut, and then text from that area is extracted and, depending on your choice, can be copied to the clipboard, saved to the history, or sent to another application (e.g. dictionary/translator). In most cases, you don't even have to interact with the GUI, and the program can reside in the system tray. The biggest changes since the program (v1.1.0) was mentioned in HN[1] in 2022 include: * Added a language manager that allows you to install and remove languages without leaving the application. Previously, you had to manually download the language files and place them in special directories. * Added a stand-alone GNU/Linux bund
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le (in a TAR.XZ archive), which should work even on legacy systems released in around mid-2014 or later (tested on Ubuntu 14.04). * Fixed recognition with vertical variants of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. * Added proper selection rectangle scaling according to the screen DPI. The width of the rectangle can now also be configured (as requested by @Lakuma in [1] :). * Thanks to contributors, the website has been translated into several languages. Some languages are still to be added, so help with translation would be greatly appreciated: https://hosted.weblate.org/engage/dpscreenocr/ The full list of changes since v1.1.0 can be found here: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/danpla/dpscreenocr/v1.4.1/... The source code (zlib license) is available on GitHub: https://github.com/danpla/dpscreenocr [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32123437
In dpScreenOCR – a cross-platform OCR tool
kretaceous·Jul 17, 2022
As a long time user, this makes me so happy. Congratulations, Daniel! I've been using v1.0.2 for almost over a year. I remember asking about tray icon support when it was already implemented[1]. I have been eagerly waiting for the release since then![2] Thanks for the awesome, lightweight tool. 1: https://github.com/danpla/dpscreenocr/issues/15 2: Although I got impatient and have been using the manually built version with the tray :p
In Show HN: dpScreenOCR – a program to recognize text on the screen

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