screenshot-highlighter

This is a tool i made to quickly highlight things in screenshots. It uses OCR to find words in text and automatically draws red boxes around them on hover.

The code is pretty bad, I dont expect anyone to actually use this. But I do, so i wanna share it and keep it somewhere i can download.

setup

requires ruby

gem install rtesseract
gem install gosu
<package manager> tesseract tesseract-data-eng

usage

ruby main.rb test.png # => test_highlighted.png

The command will open a window with the image displayed on all of it. After saving with S, it will save the file and print its new name.

See example.sh for a real usage example

instructions

select

Right click

Will create a green square. Clicking more words will expand the square to fit them

make new selection

Press enter

The square will turn red. you can now start selecting a new area

connect 2 selections

Press C when hovering on one of the red squares

The square will turn blue

Then press C on another red square

delete selection

Hover on the red square and press X

delete everything

Press O

expand selection

Hover and press + or -

save

Press S

quit

Press Q

free selection

To select a corner regardless of text press R

A green point will appear. Press R or click on anything to expand the selection.