feat: add screen text extractor script #1332
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This PR adds a script that lets users select a region of the screen and extract text from it using OCR.
Once triggered, it grabs a screenshot, preprocesses it for clarity, runs Tesseract OCR, and copies the text to the clipboard.
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dotfiles/.config/hypr/scripts/text-extractor.shUpdated
tesseractandwl-clipboardHow It Works (Implementation Details)
hyprpickerto freeze screenslurpto select a screen regiongrim--psm 6)wl-copyUsage
Bind to a key in Hyprland (default):
Trigger → select area → extracted text is instantly in clipboard.