Add screenshot OCR functionality with Minimal Dependencies (#1918)

* Add script to capture screenshot, perform OCR, and copy text to clipboard

* Add binding for screenshot-ocr

* Update OCR binding description

* Add tesseract OCR and language data installation

* Update bindings to current dev

* Refactor screenshot capture method to use wayfreeze and slurp for region selection

* Refactor OCR text extraction to simplify error handling

* Bring up to date

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Co-authored-by: David Heinemeier Hansson <david@hey.com>

bin/omarchy-capture-text-extraction

@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+# omarchy:summary=Extract text from a screenshot region with OCR
+# omarchy:group=capture
+# omarchy:examples=omarchy capture ocr
+
+# Keep hyprpicker alive until after grim captures so the screenshot sees the
+# frozen overlay rather than live content shifting during teardown.
+cleanup_freeze() {
+  [[ -n $PID ]] && kill $PID 2>/dev/null
+}
+trap cleanup_freeze EXIT
+
+hyprpicker -r -z >/dev/null 2>&1 &
+PID=$!
+sleep .1
+SELECTION=$(slurp 2>/dev/null)
+
+[[ -z $SELECTION ]] && exit 0
+
+TEXT=$(grim -g "$SELECTION" - | tesseract stdin stdout --oem 1 --psm 6 -l eng --dpi 300 -c preserve_interword_spaces=1 2>/dev/null) || exit 1
+
+[[ -z $TEXT ]] && exit 1
+
+printf "%s" "$TEXT" | wl-copy
+notify-send "󰴑    Copied text from selection to clipboard"

bin/omarchy-menu

@@ -103,9 +103,10 @@ show_trigger_menu() {
 }
 
 show_capture_menu() {
-  case $(menu "Capture" "  Screenshot\n  Screenrecord\n󰃉  Color") in
+  case $(menu "Capture" "  Screenshot\n  Screenrecord\n󰴑  Text Extraction\n󰃉  Color") in
   *Screenshot*) omarchy-capture-screenshot ;;
   *Screenrecord*) show_screenrecord_menu ;;
+  *Text*) omarchy-capture-text-extraction ;;
   *Color*) pkill hyprpicker || hyprpicker -a ;;
   *) back_to show_trigger_menu ;;
   esac

default/hypr/bindings/utilities.conf

@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ bindl = , switch:off:Lid Switch, exec, omarchy-hyprland-monitor-internal on
 bindd = , PRINT, Screenshot, exec, omarchy-capture-screenshot
 bindd = ALT, PRINT, Screenrecording, exec, omarchy-menu screenrecord
 bindd = SUPER, PRINT, Color picker, exec, pkill hyprpicker || hyprpicker -a
+bindd = SUPER CTRL, PRINT, Extract text (OCR) from screenshot, exec, omarchy-capture-text-extraction
 
 # File sharing
 bindd = SUPER CTRL, S, Share, exec, omarchy-menu share

install/omarchy-base.packages

@@ -120,6 +120,8 @@ sushi
 swaybg
 swayosd
 system-config-printer
+tesseract
+tesseract-data-eng
 tldr
 tree-sitter-cli
 tmux

migrations/1758734243.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+echo "Install tesseract OCR and language data files"
+
+omarchy-pkg-add tesseract tesseract-data-eng