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[FEATURE REQUEST] Unattended OCR text capturing from camera to clipboard #488

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@bollener-101

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Use case:

  • Transfer a text passage captured by camera to the android clipboard, in order to paste the text into an another app (e.g. a note app).
  • No document must be stored inside OSS-DocumentScanner

Currently, quite many manual intermediate steps are necessary for this use case.

Describe the solution you'd like

  • directly open OSS-DocumentScanner from the launcher (already possible using the existing home screen app shortcut "Camera" of OSS-DocumentScanner)
  • after capturing the foto, all visible text inside the image is automatically extracted using OCR and copied to the clipboard
  • OSS-DocumentScanner closes itself without storing the captured document

This unattended mode could be triggered by an additional home screen app shortcut, e.g. "Capture text"

Describe alternatives you've considered
The use case is already supported by OSS-DocumentScanner, but with the following additional steps after capturing the foto:

  • Manually exit camera mode
  • Manually select OCR recognition
  • Manually start OCR recognition
  • Manually open the extracted text
  • Manually copy the text to the clipboard
  • Manually delete the saved document
  • Manually close the app

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