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I receive a lot of screenshots during my daily work.

Most of them contain numbers which I need to copy+paste.

Is there a magic way to copy+paste numbers from images?

I use thunderbird and firefox to look at the screenshots.

This is not about "best OCR solution". Tesseract would be good enough. This question is about simple grandma compatible integration of OCR into the desktop. I don't want bricks to play with, I want a daily and easy to use solution.

I have seen this on ms-windows in the year 2001 (18 years ago). But I can't remember how this tool was called.

guettli
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Nope.

From a PDF you can as this has an extra layer that allows copy-paste of the content. But screenshots (jpeg, gif etc) do not have such features. Those contains pixels that look like digits and letters but are not.

You will need tools to extract numbers. See for instance How can I extract text from images? for list on OCR tools. None of these are easy, none are 100% perfect, and all will work on saved images and it will not work from inside a browser.

Rinzwind
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