I38.md

@@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ If you've enabled braille display support during setup, I38 will start XBrlAPI a
 
 ### OCR (Optical Character Recognition)
 
-If required dependencies are installed, you can use OCR to read text from images or inaccessible applications:
+If installed, you can use OCR to read text from images or inaccessible applications:
 
 - `MODKEY` + `F5`: Perform OCR on the entire screen and speak the content
 - In Ratpoison mode: `Print` or `MODKEY` + `r`: Perform OCR and save to clipboard

README.md

@@ -25,19 +25,15 @@ An uppercase I looks like a 1, 3 from i3, and 8 because the song [We Are 138](ht
 - lxsession: [optional] For GUI power options like shutdown
 - magic-wormhole: [optional] for file sharing with magic-wormhole GUI
 - notification-daemon: To handle notifications
+- ocrdesktop: For getting contents of the current window with OCR.
 - pamixer: for the mute-unmute script
 - pandoc or markdown: To generate html files.
 - pcmanfm: [optional] Graphical file manager.
 - playerctl: music controls
 - python-gobject: for applications menu.
 - python-i3ipc: for sounds etc.
-- python-pillow: For OCR
-- python-pytesseract: For OCR
 - remind: [optional] For reminder notifications, Requires notify-daemon and notify-send for automatic reminders.
-scrot: For OCR
 - sox: for sounds.
-- tesseract: For OCR
-- tesseract-data-eng: For OCR
 - transfersh: [optional] for file sharing GUI
 - udiskie: [optional] for automatically mounting removable storage
 - x11bell: [optional] Bell support if you do not have a PC speaker. Available from https://github.com/jovanlanik/x11bell

i38.sh

@@ -516,13 +516,9 @@ bindsym Mod1+Tab focus right
 bindsym \$mod+BackSpace fullscreen toggle
 
 
-# Move the currently focused window to the scratchpad
+# move the currently focused window to the scratchpad
 bindsym \$mod+Shift+minus move scratchpad
 
-# Bind the currently focused window to the scratchpad
-# This means it will always open in the scratchpad
-bindsym \$mod+Shift+equal exec --no-startup-id ${i3Path}/scripts/bind_to_scratchpad.sh
-
 # Show the next scratchpad window or hide the focused scratchpad window.
 # If there are multiple scratchpad windows, this command cycles through them.
 bindsym \$mod+minus scratchpad show
@@ -576,8 +572,10 @@ bindsym $mod+Shift+BackSpace mode "default"
 
 EOF
 
-# ocr through speech-dispatcher
-    echo "bindsym ${mod}+F5 exec ${i3Path}/scripts/ocr.py" >> ${i3Path}/config
+# ocrdesktop through speech-dispatcher
+if command -v ocrdesktop &> /dev/null ; then
+    echo "bindsym ${mod}+F5 exec bash -c 'spd-say -Cw \"performing O C R\" && ocrdesktop -cnog | spd-say -e --'"  >> ${i3Path}/config
+fi
 # Interrupt speech-dispatcher output
 echo "bindsym ${mod}+Shift+F5 exec spd-say -C" >> ${i3Path}/config
 
@@ -772,7 +770,6 @@ exec --no-startup-id bash -c 'if [[ -f "${i3Path}/firstrun" ]]; then ${webBrowse
     include "${i3Path}/customizations"
 EOF
 touch "${i3Path}/customizations"
-touch "${i3Path}/scratchpad"
 # Check for markdown or pandoc for converting the welcome document
 if command -v pandoc &> /dev/null ; then
     pandoc -f markdown -t html "I38.md" -so "${i3Path}/I38.html" --metadata title="Welcome to I38"

scripts/bind_to_scratchpad.sh

@@ -1,32 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-
-# Find out if we're using i3
-if ! [[ -n "${WAYLAND_DISPLAY}" ]]; then
-    cmd="i3-msg"
-    scratchConfig="${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-$HOME/.config}/i3"
-else
-    cmd="swaymsg"
-    scratchConfig="${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-$HOME/.config}/sway"
-fi
-scratchConfig+="/scratchpad"
-touch "${scratchConfig}"
-
-# Get the focused window ID
-windowId=$(xdotool getactivewindow)
-
-# Get the class name of the window
-class=$(xprop -id "$windowId" WM_CLASS | awk -F '"' '{print $4}')
-
-if [[ -z "$class" ]]; then
-    notify-send "Unable to move to scratchpad."
-    exit 1
-fi
-
-# Check if it's already in the config
-if ! grep -q "class=\"$class\"" "$scratchConfig"; then
-    echo "for_window [class=\"$class\"] move to scratchpad" >> "$scratchConfig"
-    notify-send "Added window class $class to scratchpad"
-fi
-
-# Move the window to scratchpad now
-$cmd "[class=\"$class\"] move to scratchpad"

scripts/ocr.py

@@ -1,148 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env python3
-# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-
-# This file is part of I38.
-
-# I38 is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation,
-# either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
-
-# I38 is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
-# PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
-
-# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with I38. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
-
-
-"""
-Simple OCR Screen Reader
-A lightweight tool that performs OCR on the screen and speaks the results
-"""
-
-import os
-import sys
-import time
-import subprocess
-from PIL import Image, ImageOps
-import pytesseract
-
-def capture_screen(max_retries=3, initial_delay=0.2):
-    """
-    Capture the screen using scrot with robust checking and retries
-    
-    Args:
-        max_retries: Maximum number of attempts to read the image
-        initial_delay: Initial delay in seconds (will increase with retries)
-    """
-    temp_file = "/tmp/ocr_capture.png"
-    
-    try:
-        # Capture the screen
-        subprocess.run(["scrot", temp_file], check=True)
-        
-        # Wait and retry approach with validity checking
-        delay = initial_delay
-        for attempt in range(max_retries):
-            time.sleep(delay)
-            
-            # Check if file exists and has content
-            if os.path.exists(temp_file) and os.path.getsize(temp_file) > 0:
-                try:
-                    # Try to verify the image is valid
-                    with Image.open(temp_file) as test_img:
-                        # Just accessing a property forces PIL to validate the image
-                        test_img.size
-                    
-                    # If we get here, the image is valid
-                    return Image.open(temp_file)
-                except (IOError, OSError) as e:
-                    # Image exists but isn't valid yet
-                    if attempt < max_retries - 1:
-                        # Increase delay exponentially for next attempt
-                        delay *= 2
-                        continue
-                    else:
-                        raise Exception(f"Image file exists but is not valid after {max_retries} attempts")
-            
-            # File doesn't exist or is empty
-            if attempt < max_retries - 1:
-                # Increase delay exponentially for next attempt
-                delay *= 2
-            else:
-                raise Exception(f"Screenshot file not created properly after {max_retries} attempts")
-    
-    except Exception as e:
-        print(f"Error capturing screen: {e}")
-        raise
-    finally:
-        # Ensure file is removed even if an error occurs
-        if os.path.exists(temp_file):
-            os.remove(temp_file)
-
-def process_image(img, scale_factor=1.5):
-    """Process the image to improve OCR accuracy"""
-    # Scale the image to improve OCR
-    if scale_factor != 1:
-        width, height = img.size
-        img = img.resize((int(width * scale_factor), int(height * scale_factor)), 
-                         Image.Resampling.BICUBIC)
-    
-    # Convert to grayscale for faster processing
-    img = ImageOps.grayscale(img)
-    
-    # Improve contrast for better text recognition
-    img = ImageOps.autocontrast(img)
-    
-    return img
-
-def perform_ocr(img, lang='eng'):
-    """Perform OCR on the image"""
-    # Use tessaract with optimized settings
-    # --oem 1: Use LSTM OCR Engine
-    # --psm 6: Assume a single uniform block of text
-    text = pytesseract.image_to_string(img, lang=lang, config='--oem 1 --psm 6')
-    
-    return text
-
-def speak_text(text):
-    """Speak the text using speech-dispatcher"""
-    # Filter out empty lines and clean up the text
-    lines = [line.strip() for line in text.split('\n') if line.strip()]
-    cleaned_text = ' '.join(lines)
-    
-    # Use speech-dispatcher to speak the text
-    if cleaned_text:
-        subprocess.run(["spd-say", "-Cw", cleaned_text])
-    else:
-        subprocess.run(["spd-say", "-Cw", "No text detected"])
-
-def main():
-    # Limit tesseract thread usage to improve performance on Pi
-    os.environ["OMP_THREAD_LIMIT"] = "4"
-    
-    try:
-        # Announce start
-        subprocess.run(["spd-say", "-Cw", "performing OCR"])
-        
-        # Capture screen
-        img = capture_screen()
-        
-        # Process image
-        processed_img = process_image(img, scale_factor=1.5)
-        
-        # Perform OCR
-        text = perform_ocr(processed_img)
-        
-        # Speak the results
-        speak_text(text)
-    
-    except Exception as e:
-        # Let the user know something went wrong
-        error_msg = f"Error during OCR: {str(e)}"
-        print(error_msg)
-        try:
-            subprocess.run(["spd-say", "-Cw", "OCR failed"])
-        except:
-            # If even speech fails, at least we tried
-            pass
-
-if __name__ == "__main__":
-    main()