OCR & Translate using multiple interfaces for Alfred Workflow.

OCR Demo

Feature

• Offline OCR (CNOCR)
• Online OCR (Baidu | Tencent | Google)
• QR Code Reader (Baidu | ZXing)
• Form OCR (Baidu)
• Mathematical formula recognition (Baidu | Mathpix)
• Multi File OCR (Baidu)
• Translate (ColorfulClouds)

Installation

• You need install at least Alfred 3 or latest version and activate Powerpack;
• You need install Python 3 and necessary modules, then fill Python 3 Path at PYTHON_PATH;
• You need to apply and fill the configuration of the API Key into the environment variable;
• More installation details: Install-Python(EN)

Python Module

CNOCR

 pip install cnocr

ZXing

 pip install zxing

Others

 pip install requests

Interfaces

CNOCR

Trigger

• Use keyword oo to trigger screenshot selector.

Description

• More installation details: README.

Baidu AI

Trigger

1. Online OCR: Use shortcut key ctrl + v to trigger screenshot selector or Taking screenshot to clipboard then use keywords oob (baidu) to trigger.
2. QR Code Reader: Taking screenshot to clipboard then use keywords ooqb (qr baidu) to trigger.
3. Form OCR: Taking screenshot to clipboard then use keywords ooe (excel) to trigger, then you can copy it to Excel.
4. Multi File OCR: Select file in Finder and use keywords oof (file) to trigger.

Description

1. QR Code support reading multiple at the same time;
2. The test token does not guarantee availability, you can apply for it if you need stability;
3. Single picture up to 4MB .

Tencent

Trigger

• Online OCR: Taking screenshot to clipboard then use keywords oot (tencent) to trigger.

Description

1. The test token does not guarantee availability, you can apply for it if you need stability;
2. Single picture up to 3MB .

Google OCR

Trigger

• Online OCR: Taking screenshot to clipboard then use keywords oog (google) to trigger.

Env Variable

Description

• Google OCR is a fee-paying interfaces and requires a credit card. Therefore, this project does not have a test token. You must apply for it.

ZXing

Trigger

• QR Code Reader: Taking screenshot to clipboard then use keywords ooq to trigger.

Description

1. More installation details: README;
2. Only supports single QR code recognition.

TODO

• Paragraph optimization.
• Screenshot translation.

Reference

1. breezedeus/cnocr(https://github.com/breezedeus/cnocr)
2. dlenski/python-zxing(https://github.com/dlenski/python-zxing)
3. ginfuru/alfred-screen-capture(https://github.com/ginfuru/alfred-screen-capture)
4. oott123/alfred-clipboard-ocr(https://github.com/oott123/alfred-clipboard-ocr)
5. Elvis Cai(https://github.com/elviscai)