diff --git a/docs/ocr.md b/docs/ocr.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..bc1bbf09 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/ocr.md @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +# OCR + +This feature allows you to select a screen region, recognize it as text and copy this text to the clipboard. +Recognition works locally on your PiKVM and does not use any cloud services. It uses the [Tesseract OCR library](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract). +Tesseract does not see your image until you explicitly give the recognition command. The evil AI is not watching your screen. + +## Language support + +For any language, you will have to install its support. It is very easy to do this (Russian language for example): +``` +# rw +# pacman -S tesseract-data-rus +# ro +``` + +List all available languages in the repository: +``` +# pacman -Ss tesseract-data +``` + +## Disabling OCR + +If you want to get rid of this feature completely, you need to delete Tesseract and all its data: + +``` +# rw +# pacman -R tesseract +# reboot +```