manga-ocr-pipe 1.0.0

Optical character recognition for Japanese text, with the main focus being Japanese manga.

Manga OCR Pipe

A lightweight CLI tool that is based on the excellent Manga OCR project by Kha White.

It reads images from stdin, performs OCR, and writes the recognized text to stdout.

Examples

The beauty of Manga OCR Pipe, is that you can use whatever screenshot utility and clipboard manager you want. You can even send it to another tool if you wish.

Hyprshot

hyprshot -m region -s -r _ | mocr | wl-copy

Spectacle

spectacle -r -o ~/Pictures/Screenshots/ocr.png && mocr < ~/Pictures/Screenshots/ocr.png | wl-copy

From file

mocr < ~/Pictures/Screenshots/ocr.png | wl-copy

With notification

... && notify-send "OCR Complete"

Features

• Read images directly from stdin
• Write recognized text to stdout
• Fast repeated OCR using a persistent daemon
• Simple Unix-friendly interface
• Works well with any screenshot tools and clipboard utilities
• Automatically frees memory in case of inactivity

Installation

Commands

mocr

Reads an image from standard input and prints the recognized Japanese text to standard output.

mocrd

Starts the background OCR daemon manually. Normally, this does not need to be started explicitly because mocr launches it automatically when needed.