cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/43288310
In KDE Plasma 6.6 Spectacle can read texts from screenshots, a new on-screen keybord is available for testing, a first-time wizard was added, current theme can be saved as a new global theme, emoji selector got a new easier skin tone selection, you can now connect to a Wi-Fi network via a QR code, application sound volume can be changed by scrolling over a taskbar button via mouse, and there is much more.
Spectacle OCR is fantastic news. That is really going to simplify one of my current workflows.
As long as it can be turned off and does not use any non-local services for OCR it’s a good addition. As much as convenience is nice, privacy still has to come first.
The OCR is offline, using Tesseract, there is nothing online about it.
It only activates when you press a button, so there is nothing to turn off either.