Shotzy

Image search on Google Lens, OCR and QR scan directly from the built-in GNOME Screenshot tool.

Shotzy.mp4

Installation

Dependencies:

Install Tesseract OCR and zbar-tools before proceeding (if you wish to use OCR / QR scanning):

# Arch
sudo pacman -S tesseract tesseract-data-eng
sudo pacman -S zbar

# Ubuntu/Debian
sudo apt install tesseract-ocr
sudo apt install zbar-tools

# NixOS
add this somewhere in you config

environment.systemPackages = [
    zbar
    pkgs.tesseract # to install all languages
    # or (pkgs.tesseract.override { enableLanguages = [ "eng" "rus" ]; }) to install only specific lanuages
];

environment.variables = {
    TESSDATA_PREFIX = "${pkgs.tesseract}/share/tessdata";
};

Shotzy detects installed OCR languages from TESSDATA_PREFIX env variable or from /usr/share/tessdata if not specified.

Install extra Tesseract language packs to make them selectable in the OCR settings.

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GNOME Extensions Portal

https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/9707/shotzy/

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Manual Install

mkdir -p ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/shotzy@SamkitJain660.github.io && \
wget -qO- https://github.com/SamkitJain660/Shotzy/archive/refs/heads/main.tar.gz | \
tar -xz --strip-components=1 -C ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/shotzy@SamkitJain660.github.io

Compile schemas:

glib-compile-schemas ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/shotzy@SamkitJain660.github.io/schemas/

Then restart GNOME Shell and enable the extension:

gnome-extensions enable shotzy@SamkitJain660.github.io