Extract text from images

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// Menu: Optical Character Recognition
// Description: Extract text from images
// Author: Kent C. Dodds
// Twitter: @kentcdodds

import '@johnlindquist/kit'
import Tesseract from 'tesseract.js'

const clipboardImage = await clipboard.readImage()

if (clipboardImage.byteLength) {
  const {data} = await Tesseract.recognize(clipboardImage, 'eng', {
    logger: m => console.log(m),
  })
  clipboard.writeText(data.text)
} else {
  let selectedFiles = await getSelectedFile()
  let filePaths: Array<string>

  if (selectedFiles) {
    filePaths = selectedFiles.split('\n')
  } else {
    let droppedFiles = await drop({placeholder: 'Drop images to compress'})
    filePaths = droppedFiles.map(file => file.path)
  }
  for (const filePath of filePaths) {
    const {data} = await Tesseract.recognize(filePath, 'eng', {
      logger: m => console.log(m),
    })
    clipboard.writeText(data.text)
  }
}

notify({
  title: 'OCR finished',
  message: `Copied text to your clipboard`,
})