Grab image and get the text out of it – updated code

This code to get an image from the computer screen with a text and get the text out of it has been update with a little gui, so that you can start to get the image pressing a button in the gui made with tkinter. Nothing fancy, but useful. I found it useful, so I wanted to share it with you. Repository.

# grabscreen.py

import pyscreenshot as ImageGrab
import os
from pynput.mouse import Listener
import sys
import tkinter as tk

'''
        Grab a text from an image
        grabbed clickin on the left top corner
        and right down corner of the part of the screen
        with the text.
        It returns it in the console

'''

import pytesseract


def grab(x, y, w, h):
    im = ImageGrab.grab(bbox=(x, y, w, h))
    save(im)
    ocr()


def save(im):
    im.save('im.png')
    os.startfile('im.png')

def ocr():
    pytesseract.pytesseract.tesseract_cmd = r'C:\Program Files\Tesseract-OCR\tesseract'
    print(pytesseract.image_to_string(r'im.png'))

click1 = 0
x1 = 0
y1 = 0
def on_click(x, y, button, pressed):
    global click1, x1, y1, listener
    
    if pressed:
        if click1 == 0:
            x1 = x
            y1 = y
            click1 = 1
        else:
            grab(x1, y1, x, y)
            listener.stop()
            sys.exit()
def start():
    global listener

    root.destroy()
    print("Click once on top left and once on bottom right")
    # with Listener(on_move=on_move, on_click=on_click, on_scroll=on_scroll) as listener:
    with Listener(on_click=on_click) as listener:
        listener.join()
        # listener.stop()
        # sys.exit()

root = tk.Tk()

but = tk.Button(root, text="GRAB", command=start)
but.pack()

root.mainloop()

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