Multilingual OCR

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by Ahmed Alzuhair

Multilingual extraction of texts from images - This plugin has not been manually reviewed by Obsidian staff.

↓ 741 downloadsUpdated 2mo ago0BSD
Install in ObsidianView on GitHub

Multilingual OCR for Obsidian

Multilingual OCR is a handy plugin that extract text from images in any langauge.

Features

  • You can apply OCR:
    • On the last image in the active note.
    • By typing the absolute/relative path of the intended image.
    • By right-clicking on the image in obsidian file explorer.
  • Save the OCR result directly into the clipboard.
  • Display the OCR result in the sidebar for easy highlighting and copy-pasting.
  • Specify the language.
  • More than 100 languages supported, for langauges codes check Tesseract.js
  • RTL support for Arabic

demo file explorer demo

Supported file extensions

  • png
  • jpg
  • jpeg

Limitations

  • This plugin uses Tesseract.js, which is not perfect and hence may result in unexpected outputs for some images.
  • The file extensions are limited (could be extended in the future...)

Installation

This plugin could be found on the Obsidian community plugin repo.

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