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Tired of making a doc or taking notes?
S-Crop all-in-one snipping tool with OCR feature. Easily invoke using keyboard shortcuts. Select and copy the desired area of the screen easily to your clipboard. Also, extract the text from the selected area. Everything is copied to your clipboard. Make docs in a hassle free process.

Here's why:

• Handling images while making a doc is difficult.
• Each time you need to take a screenshot, insert it into the doc and crop the desired area.
• So, S-Crop simplifies the task by simply copying the desired area to your clipboard

• Electron
• JCrop
• Tesseract.js
• NodeJs
• Electron-Builder

Download the desktop setup from here >>

• Install the node modules using yarn command

  yarn

• To initiate the development process

  yarn start

• To distribute the application using electron-build

  yarn add electron-prebuilt-compile@1.7.9 --dev
  
  yarn distribute

1. Download the desktop application setup here
2. Change the directory. Do not use default C directory to install the application, as this may lead to permission issues. Use D:/ or E:/ directories. Create a folder named S-Crop in any one of directory. Give this path during installation.
3. Install the application and you are all set.
4. There are currently two features:
   
   SNIP
   Crop the desired area of the screen and copy it to the clipboard.
   
   OCR
   Extract text from the desired area of the screen and copy it to the clipboard.
   
   • Select the desired rectangle. The result will be copied to the clipboard.
   
   Keyboard Shorcuts:

   SNIP: CTRL+ALT+I
   OCR: CTRL+ALT+O
   Close the current cropping window: Press Esc
   

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Project Link: https://github.com/maheshmb13/S-Crop

• JCrop
• Electron
• Tesseract.js
• Nodejs
• Electron-Builder
• Readme Template