thebesttv / PonyOCR

A simple & portable OCR tool (work in progress)

PonyOCR

A simple tool for fetching OCR results from Baidu, Tencent, Mathpix, etc.

Supported OCR Mode:

• Normal Text
• Table

  name	price
  apple	$10$
  pony	$\infty$

• Mathematical Formula (KaTeX) \[ f(pony) = \int_{-\infty}^{\infty} \text{doubly fun}\]
• Handwriting
• Web Image (optimised for images with complex background and WordArt)
• Plain number
• even QR Code

Built with

• Qt 5.14 (for now)

Files

There are some config files under directory files/:

• org.thebesttv.PonyOCR.service: should be under /usr/share/dbus-1/services/, allows dbus to auto start PonyOCR when PonyOCR request command is issued
• PonyOCR.desktop: should be under ~/.local/share/applications/, adds PonyOCR icon to desktop. The icon file is /usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/ponyocr.png. See Desktop files: putting your application in the desktop menus.

The config file is ~/.config/thebesttv/PonyOCR.conf.

Acknowledgment

• flameshot
• Qt WebEngine Markdown Editor Example
• XLor