How To Extract Text From Screenshots And Images In Linux @ComputerEverywhere
How To Extract Text From Screenshots And Images In Linux  @ComputerEverywhere
Uploaded November 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
If you often take screenshots and then wish you could just grab the text from them, you'll like what spectacle-ocr can do. It makes the process quick, local, and private. Using spectacle-ocr, you can go from image → text in one step.








What you will learn:
1. How to extract text from any images
2. How to Install spectacle-ocr in Linux
3. Method 1: Using the Installer Script
a. How You can install it easily via the setup script
b. How to Installs dependencies
c. How to Adds a launcher called "Extract Text" for PNG files
d. How to Updates your desktop database
e. How to install Spectacle separately
4. Method 2: Manual Install
a. How to install the required dependencies
b. How to Install spectacle-ocr on Debian, Ubuntu and its derivatives
c. How to Download the spectacle-ocr files
d. How to Create a desktop entry for the "Extract Text" option

























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How To Extract Text From Screenshots And Images In Linux

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