AnkiWeb addon 1746010116
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Extracts text from clipboard images using Tesseract OCR, letting users paste screenshots of lecture slides or textbooks directly into Anki cards via a button or keyboard shortcut.
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| Min Anki | Max Anki | Updated |
|---|---|---|
| 2.1.0 | 2.1.16+ | 2023-02-26 |
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The original addon and its forks. The best value in each column is in bold.
| Version | Works on Anki 26.09.3 | Maintenance | Last activity | Votes | Approval | GitHub stars | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| pasteOCR this addon original | likely | abandoned | 24 Jan 2024 | 👍 15 · 👎 1 | 72% | 6 | beta |
| ↳ 📸PasteOCR - Paste image as text (Fixed by Shigeඞ) (AI-detected; may be wrong) | likely | abandoned | 4 Apr 2024 | 👍 5 · 👎 1 | 44% | – |
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Pastes images as text via OCR in Anki's editor, adding a paste icon; Windows-only, with manual configuration to enable other OCR languages.
Automatically detects text regions in images using Tesseract OCR and creates configurable, merged image occlusion shapes with one click.
Generates searchable OCR text in bulk from images in notes using Tesseract, storing it as image tooltips or a separate field.
Enables fully hands-free Anki review by reading cards aloud, recognizing spoken answers, and scoring them with AI, OCR, and multi-language support.
Integrates Google Gemini AI into Anki's editor to generate questions, answers, and flashcards from text, selected paragraphs, or images using customizable prompts and keyboard shortcuts.
Combines PDFs, EPUBs, videos, web pages, and notes with normal flashcards in incremental study sessions, letting you highlight, extract new cards, prioritize, and resume where you left off.
If you have an image in your clipboard, say after taking a screenshot, clicking the button will extract text from the image and paste it.
You can also use the keyboard shortcut for convenience: Ctrl + Alt + V on Windows or Cmd + Alt + V on Mac.
Installation
pasteOCR uses the Tesseract OCR engine, a powerful OCR engine currently maintained by Google. More on Tesseract here.
If you are using Windows, the Tesseract binaries are included with the addon.
If you are using Mac OSX, you will have to install Tesseract to your computer. The easiest way to do this is to install Homebrew. Open the terminal and run the following command:
/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install.sh)"
Once that's installed, run the following command:
brew install tesseract
Once Tesseract is ready to go, you can install the addon to Anki within the program, using the installation code: 1746010116.
Attributions
This addon depends on the Tesseract engine, distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. Link.
I benefitted enormously from the code provided by Chris Culhane for his AnkiOCR addon while figuring out some quirks with Tesseract. Check out his fantastic addon here.
The icon for the button is courtesy of Flaticon.com.
Comments, Feedback, and Feature Requests
If you would like to get in touch with me for improvements or requests, you can submit a comment to the Issues page on Github, or you can email me directly at m dot maaz at mail dot utoronto dot ca. This software is in beta right now, so please contact me if you have any issues. Note that I don't get notified from comments on this page (the Anki addon page).
License
The code for this addon is distributed under the GNU General Public License v3.0. The code is on Github.
Updates
February 26, 2023: Updated it to work with newer versions of Anki. Thanks to the users who reached out to let me know :)This is an addon for the flashcard program Anki which allows you to paste images as text using optical character recognition (OCR).
It makes using screenshots of lecture slides or textbooks to make cards a breeze!
Once installed, you will notice a button on the left.
If you have an image in your clipboard, say after taking a screenshot, clicking the button will extract text from the image and paste it.
You can also use the keyboard shortcut for convenience: Ctrl + Alt + V on Windows or Cmd + Alt + V on Mac.
pasteOCR uses the Tesseract OCR engine, a powerful OCR engine currently maintained by Google. More on Tesseract here.
If you are using Windows, the Tesseract binaries are included with the addon.
If you are using Mac OSX, you will have to install Tesseract to your computer. The easiest way to do this is to install Homebrew. Open the terminal and run the following command:
/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install.sh)"
Once that's installed, run the following command:
brew install tesseract
Once Tesseract is ready to go, you can install the addon to Anki within the program, using the installation code: 1746010116.
This code is distributed under the GNU General Public License v3.0.