leanflutter/screen_text_extractor

This plugin allows Flutter desktop apps to extract text from screen.

screen_text_extractor

This plugin allows Flutter desktop apps to extract text from screen.

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• screen_text_extractor
  • Platform Support
  • Quick Start
    • Installation
    • Usage
  • Who's using it?
  • API
    • ScreenTextExtractor
  • License

Platform Support

Linux	macOS	Windows
✔️	✔️	✔️

Quick Start

Installation

Add this to your package's pubspec.yaml file:

dependencies:
  screen_text_extractor: ^0.1.3

Or

dependencies:
  screen_text_extractor:
    git:
      url: https://github.com/leanflutter/screen_text_extractor.git
      ref: main

Usage

import 'package:screen_text_extractor/screen_text_extractor.dart';

ExtractedData data;

data = await ScreenTextExtractor.instance.extractFromClipboard();
data = await ScreenTextExtractor.instance.extractFromScreenSelection();

Please see the example app of this plugin for a full example.

Who's using it?

• Biyi (比译) - A convenient translation and dictionary app.

API

ScreenTextExtractor

Method	Description	Linux	MacOS	Windows
isAccessAllowed	macOS only	➖	✔️	➖
requestAccess	macOS only	➖	✔️	➖
extractFromClipboard		✔️	✔️	✔️
extractFromScreenSelection		✔️	✔️	✔️

License

MIT

screen_text_extractor's Issues

Extracting selected text does not work on macOS

Hello!

I used example code to test this plugin. Instead of extracting selected text it showed null. Seems that there is a problem with simulating ⌘ + C press, because if I try to extract selected text and then manually copy, then it returns copied text.

Issue occurred on macOS 13.0.1 (22A400)