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## Current Situation
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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:
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## Capture2Text
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Capture2Text can call executable after capturing, and you can set the executable to GoldenDict.
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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}"`
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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.
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The hotkeys can be configured:
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Capture2Text can also obtain word near cursor without selecting a region via the "Forward Text Line Capture" by pressing <kdb> Win+W </kbd>
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you may want to enable "First word only" so that only a single word would be captured
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### Use Capture2Text on Linux
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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
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[sikmir](https://github.com/goldendict/goldendict/issues/1445#issuecomment-1022972220).
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## Shortcuts.app & Apple's OCR
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Enable the Clipboard monitoring of GoldenDict, then create a "Shorcut" that will interactively take screnshot and change the clipboard.
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You may also add additional capiblities like only getting the first word
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## Tesseract via command line
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On Linux, you can combine command line screenshot then pass the output image to Tesseract then pass the text result to `goldendict`
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Example with spectacle (KDE) and grim (wayland/wlroots)
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```
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#!/usr/bin/env bash
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set -e
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case $DESKTOP_SESSION in
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sway)
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grim -g "$(slurp)" /tmp/tmp.just_random_name.png
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;;
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plasmawayland | plasma)
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spectacle --region --nonotify --background \
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--output /tmp/tmp.just_random_name.png
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;;
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*)
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echo "Failed to know desktop type"
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exit 1
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;;
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esac
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# note that tesseract will apppend .txt to output file
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tesseract /tmp/tmp.just_random_name.png /tmp/tmp.just_random_name --oem 1 -l eng
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goldendict "$(cat /tmp/tmp.just_random_name.txt)"
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rm /tmp/tmp.just_random_name.png
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rm /tmp/tmp.just_random_name.txt
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```
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