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## Current Situation
GoldenDict offered a functionality to translate the word under cursor on Windows in the past, but the technique used there is old and does not work crossplatformly.
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However, any OCR program that allows you to set "after capturing action" can be easily used in conjunction with GoldenDict.
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A few examples are provided below, but there are many options:
## Capture2Text
Capture2Text can call executable after capturing, and you can set the executable to GoldenDict.
Detailed usage document: [Capture2Text ](https://capture2text.sourceforge.net/ )
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[Capture2Text Download ](https://github.com/xiaoyifang/Capture2Text/releases/tag/prerelease-20220806 )
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For example, change the Output action `Call Executable` to `path_to_the_GD_executable\GoldenDict.exe "${capture}"`
Then press < kbd > Win+Q< / kbd > and select a region. After capturing a word, Capture2Text will forward the word to GoldenDict. If GoldenDict's scanpopup is enabled, it will show up.
The hotkeys can be configured:
Capture2Text can also obtain word near cursor without selecting a region via the "Forward Text Line Capture" by pressing < kdb > Win+W < / kbd >
you may want to enable "First word only" so that only a single word would be captured
### Use Capture2Text on Linux
Capture2Text does not have Linux version, but I have ported it to Linux < https: // github . com / xiaoyifang / Capture2Text > thanks to [Capture2Text Linux Port ](https://github.com/GSam/Capture2Text ) and
[sikmir ](https://github.com/goldendict/goldendict/issues/1445#issuecomment-1022972220 ).
## Shortcuts.app & Apple's OCR
Enable the Clipboard monitoring of GoldenDict, then create a "Shorcut" that will interactively take screnshot and change the clipboard.
You may also add additional capiblities like only getting the first word
## Tesseract via command line
On Linux, you can combine command line screenshot then pass the output image to Tesseract then pass the text result to `goldendict`
Example with spectacle (KDE) and grim (wayland/wlroots)
```
#!/usr/bin/env bash
set -e
case $DESKTOP_SESSION in
sway)
grim -g "$(slurp)" /tmp/tmp.just_random_name.png
;;
plasmawayland | plasma)
spectacle --region --nonotify --background \
--output /tmp/tmp.just_random_name.png
;;
*)
echo "Failed to know desktop type"
exit 1
;;
esac
# note that tesseract will apppend .txt to output file
tesseract /tmp/tmp.just_random_name.png /tmp/tmp.just_random_name --oem 1 -l eng
goldendict "$(cat /tmp/tmp.just_random_name.txt)"
rm /tmp/tmp.just_random_name.png
rm /tmp/tmp.just_random_name.txt
```
