Screen Text Capture Chrome Extension

A lightweight Chrome extension to capture any area of a webpage and extract text using Tesseract OCR.

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Features

• Area Selection: Draw a resizable selection box anywhere on the webpage.
• Screenshot Capture: Capture only the selected portion of the page.
• Text Recognition: Extract text from the selected screenshot using Tesseract.js.
• On-Demand Activation: Activate only when the extension icon is clicked.
• Device Independent: Supports high-DPI screens by considering device pixel ratio.

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Installation

1. Clone or download this repository.
2. Open Chrome and go to chrome://extensions/.
3. Enable Developer mode.
4. Click Load unpacked and select the project folder.

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Usage

1. Click the extension icon in the Chrome toolbar.
2. Draw a selection box on the page.
3. Wait a few seconds for OCR to process the selection.
4. Check the recognized text in the browser console.

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Tech Stack

• Chrome Extension Manifest V3
• Tesseract.js for OCR
• JavaScript & HTML5 Canvas

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Notes

• OCR runs directly in the content script without using web workers to ensure compatibility in Chrome extensions.
• tesseract.min.js must be included in the extension folder.

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License

MIT License