Text From Image

About this plugin

Use OCR to copy text from an image fill. Ever wish you could quickly grab some text from a static image? This plugin makes it easy with the magic of optical character recognition. KNOWN PROBLEMS * If you attempt to run the plugin on a static image larger than 1MB with a free API key, it will silently fail. Working on an error message right now. * Current workaround: resize the image to a smaller size, copy as PNG, paste it back onto the cavnas, rerun the plugin on the new, smaller image. * Alternatively, you can upgrade your API key to the paid tier at OCR.Space. HOW IT WORKS * This plugin takes advantage of the free API offered by OCR.Space (https://ocr.space). You'll need to acquire your own free API key here: https://ocr.space/OCRAPI#free * Copy your API key and paste it into the plugin. * Once your key is saved, select a layer with a static image as a fill, and run the plugin * After a brief delay, the text will be copied to your clipboard, ready to be pasted. LIMITATIONS * You can only select one layer at a time currently * If an image has more than one image fill, it will only work for the top one * As a quirk of how the plugin was made, you will briefly see a non-interactive window pop up. This allows for content to be added to your clipboard. * In addition, the same limitations that apply to OCR.Space's API free tier applies obviously to this plugin, such as file size limit, and rate limiting. See full info here: https://ocr.space/OCRAPI This plugin is 100% open source. Feel free to open issues or pull requests at https://github.com/mkwng/Text-From-Image