OCR Feedback

A toast notification tells you exactly what happened after every OCR capture.

After drawing an OCR selection, a toast appears in the main window showing how many characters were extracted — or a clear error message if something went wrong.

What the toasts mean

Toast Meaning
"OCR: 142 characters copied to clipboard" Success — extracted text is on the clipboard
"OCR: no text found in selection" The selected area contained no readable text
"OCR language pack not installed…" The language pack needs to be downloaded first
Tesseract error message Something went wrong with the OCR engine

Success toasts disappear after 3 seconds. Error toasts stay for 6 seconds.

The clipboard is only updated if at least one character was found — empty results do not overwrite what was there before.

The extracted text is also saved as a clip in your clipboard history (source: “Blue Synergy · OCR”).

Tips & gotchas

  • The toast appears in the main window (Captures tab), not in the capture selector — the selector is already hidden when OCR runs.
  • If you see the language pack toast, go to Settings → Captures → OCR and download the pack.
  • OCR can be disabled entirely via the Enabled checkbox in Settings → Captures → OCR — the hotkey is unregistered immediately when you turn it off.

See also