NormCap
by dynobo
Capture text from any screen area
Sandboxed
Verified creator
GPL-3.0-or-later
v0.6.0
About
OCR-powered screen-capture tool to capture information instead of images.
Usage:
- Start NormCap
- Select a region on the screen
- Wait while the text is being extracted
- Paste the result from the clipboard (ctrl+v)
Features:
- Detects text in many different languages
- Detects QR codes and barcodes
- Heuristic parsing to improve results
- Works offline (data doesn't leave your computer)
- Supports multi-monitor setups
- Free and Open Source
- Available for Linux, Windows, and macOS
Tags: OCR, QR, barcode, screenshot, recognition, Tesseract
Permissions
Everything this app can reach outside its sandbox. Nothing here weakens it.
- inter-process communication (needed for X11)
--share=ipc - network
--share=network - X11 display, only when Wayland is unavailable
--socket=fallback-x11 - Wayland display
--socket=wayland - GPU acceleration
--device=dri - access to your pictures folder
--filesystem=xdg-pictures - access to xdg-config/kdeglobals
--filesystem=xdg-config/kdeglobals:ro - talks to com.canonical.AppMenu.Registrar
--talk-name=com.canonical.AppMenu.Registrar - talks to org.kde.kconfig.notify
--talk-name=org.kde.kconfig.notify - talks to org.kde.KGlobalSettings
--talk-name=org.kde.KGlobalSettings - system tray
--talk-name=org.kde.StatusNotifierWatcher - talks to org.kde.kdeconnect
--talk-name=org.kde.kdeconnect - talks to org.kde.KWin.*
--talk-name=org.kde.KWin.* - talks to org.gnome.Shell.*
--talk-name=org.gnome.Shell.*
Who publishes this
The creator demonstrably controls this app id: Flathub verification, the hosting account owns the namespace, or a well-known file on their domain.
- verified on Flathub: the developer proved they control this app id
publisher:flathub
Maintenance
Recent activity on the upstream repository, or built and reviewed by Flathub.
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