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tatsuhirosatou
Asked: 2015-10-24 17:52:54 +0800 CST

How can I copy text from dialog boxes and menus?

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I am learning Japanese and installed the OS in Japanese to immerse myself in the language. Sometimes I want to copy messages from windows, menus and dialog boxes so that I can look them up on the dictionary, but I cant. I saw that there there many options for doing this in Windows. Are there any similar options available for Ubuntu?

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  1. Best Answer

    Make a screenshot and use OCR

    1. Install OCR software

      sudo apt-get install tesseract-ocr
sudo apt-get install tesseract-ocr-jpn

    2. Install a GUI for tesseract

      sudo apt-get install gimagereader

    3. Make a screenshot of your desktop or of a part of your desktop

    4. Start gimagereader and start the recognizion

      enter image description here

    5. Copy the text into the right pane and translate

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