OCR (Screen Text Capture)

LinNote can extract text from any area of your screen using Tesseract OCR.

Activate:

ocr

Or use keyboard shortcut: Ctrl+Shift+O

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How It Works

1. Type ocr and press Enter (or press Ctrl+Shift+O)
2. Screen capture mode activates
3. Select the area containing text
4. Text is extracted and inserted into your note

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Requirements

Tesseract must be installed:

Arch Linux:

sudo pacman -S tesseract tesseract-data-eng

Ubuntu/Debian:

sudo apt install tesseract-ocr tesseract-ocr-eng

Fedora:

sudo dnf install tesseract tesseract-langpack-eng

openSUSE:

sudo zypper install tesseract-ocr tesseract-ocr-traineddata-english

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Language Support

LinNote supports multiple OCR languages. Configure in Settings → OCR.

Available Languages

English (eng), Turkish (tur), German (deu), French (fra), Spanish (spa), Italian (ita), Portuguese (por), Russian (rus), Chinese Simplified (chi_sim), Japanese (jpn), Korean (kor), Arabic (ara)

Note: Additional language packs must be installed separately via your package manager.

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OCR Settings

Access via Settings → OCR:

Setting	Description
OCR Language	Select recognition language
Create new note	Put OCR text in new note (vs. current)

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Tips

1. High contrast text works best
2. Larger font sizes improve accuracy
3. Clean backgrounds give better results
4. For multiple languages, install additional Tesseract data packs