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1-liner for convenient OCR on desktop :

tesseract -l eng Pictures/$(ls -rt1 Pictures/ | tail -1) /tmp/ocr 2> /dev/null && cat /tmp/ocr.txt

Takes the latest image you saved, assuming it is a screenshot, then run it through tesseract https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract to output the result.

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