MonteCapcho

Select any region on your screen and instantly extract text like code snippets or simple CAPTCHA — fully offline.

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MonteCapcho was built to reduce the pain of copying code from tutorials and quickly capture text from anywhere on your screen. Built with Rust, Iced, and Tesseract OCR. Works on both Wayland and X11.

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✨ Features

• Draw & extract — select a region and get text in one step
• Fully offline — nothing leaves your machine
• Wayland & X11 support — uses grim + slurp or maim + slop depending on your session
• Simple GUI — editable text area, capture button, one-click clipboard copy
• CLI mode — pipe-friendly, scriptable terminal interface

Coming soon

• High-accuracy mode
• Code-aware OCR
• Image preprocessing pipeline
• Improved dark-background OCR

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📸 Screenshots

 

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📦 Installation

Arch Linux — AUR (recommended)

yay -S montecapcho

Or build manually from the PKGBUILD:

git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/montecapcho.git
cd montecapcho
makepkg -si

Build from source

Requirements: Rust 1.82+, Tesseract, Leptonica

git clone https://github.com/Top-g-hash/Monte-Capcho
cd Monte-Capcho
cargo build --release
./target/release/MonteCapcho

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🛠 Dependencies

AUR installations handle these automatically. If building from source, install them manually.

Common

Package	Purpose
tesseract	OCR engine
leptonica	Image processing library
copyq	Clipboard persistence

Note: copyq is not installed by default on most distros. Without it, copy-to-clipboard will not work.

# Arch
sudo pacman -S copyq
# Debian / Ubuntu
sudo apt install copyq

Wayland only

Package	Purpose
grim	Screenshot tool
slurp	Region selection

X11 only

Package	Purpose
maim	Screenshot tool
slop	Region selection

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🚀 Usage

GUI mode

MonteCapcho

The GUI includes an editable text area, a capture button, and a copy button.

Shortcut	Action
Ctrl+S	Capture region and extract text
Ctrl+C	Copy extracted text to clipboard

CLI mode

Capture and print text to stdout:

MonteCapcho --capture

Capture and copy directly to the clipboard:

MonteCapcho --capture --copy

Flags

Flag	Description
-c, --capture	Perform screenshot and OCR
-p, --copy	Copy output text to the clipboard

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📁 Project structure

src/         Application source code
fonts/       Embedded font assets
assets/      Icons and .desktop file
Cargo.toml   Rust project config
build.rs     Build script for font embedding

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📜 License

Licensed under the MIT License.

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👏 Acknowledgments

• Iced — GUI framework
• Tesseract OCR — text recognition engine
• CopyQ — clipboard management
• clap — CLI argument parsing

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💬 Contributing

Contributions are welcome — bugs, features, and improvements alike.

1. Fork the repo
2. Create a branch: git checkout -b feature/my-feature
3. Commit your changes
4. Open a pull request

Report issues at github.com/Top-g-hash/Monte-Capcho/issues