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> a screenshot of a terminal instead of copy and pasting the text No. Please, no! For some reason, I get screenshots of text regularly from technical people.
by doubled112 3y ago
> a screenshot of a terminal instead of copy and pasting the text
No. Please, no!
For some reason, I get screenshots of text regularly from technical people. Log files, error messages, everything. It is like they forget Slack can send anything more than images and emojis.
No, I'm not typing out keywords from 3 pages of Java exception, nor am I typing an encoded AWS authorization message.
- Noumenon72 3y agoIs there a tool that lets you can paste in a screenshot and have it extract the text?
- reaperman 3y agoMacOS does this pretty automatically across multiple apps.
- shpx 3y agoI've tried using it for this exact thing, and it doesn't work that well with terminal screenshots. You have to carefully read the output and fix it manually, but at least it's better than typing it all out by hand.
- Noumenon72 3y agoWhat do you mean, MacOS? I use a Mac and have no idea how to do this.
- sqrt_1 3y agoOn Windows, as part of PowerToys - there is a Text extractor. Works just like the screenshot tool except dumps text to clipboard https://learn.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/powertoys/text-extractor https://learn.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/powertoys/text-ext...
- doubled112 3y agoYes, but in the case of the authorization message it was cut off. It isn’t just one thing that goes wrong with my team members.
- brookst 3y agoPipe the output of the angular gyrus to the supramarginal gyrus.