Add OCR functionality to Spectacle

Jhair Parisrequested to merge
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Description

Allowing users to extract text from screenshots using Tesseract OCR engine.

Features Added

  • Text recognition: Extract text from captured screenshots
  • Multi-language support: Set multiple languages to do OCR in General Options or select one in the viewer window
  • UI integration: OCR button available in all capture modes and viewer
  • Clipboard integration: Extracted text is automatically copied to clipboard

UI

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Technical Implementation

  • New OcrManager class handling Tesseract integration
  • OCR language configuration in Settings dialog
  • QML action (OcrAction) for consistent UI integration
  • Integration with existing notification system
  • Proper error handling and user feedback

Dependencies

  • Tesseract

Breaking Changes

None. This is a pure feature addition with optional dependency.

Edited by Jhair Paris

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