ocr-text-selector

📦 OCR Text Selector (Angular / Ionic Library)

ocr-text-selector is an Angular/Ionic component library that provides a Google Lens–like OCR text selection experience.
Users can run OCR on an image, see bounding boxes, and tap/click to select text directly from the image.

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✨ Features

• 🔍 OCR text recognition using Tesseract.js.
• 🖱️ Select text (word-level) from an image.
• 📤 Emits selected text to your app.
• 📱 Works in both Angular and Ionic.
• ⚡ Angular 17+ compatible.

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⚙️ Setup

1. Install the package

npm install ocr-text-selector

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📖 Usage

1. Import the Module

import { OcrTextSelectorModule } from 'ocr-text-selector';

@NgModule({
  imports: [
    BrowserModule,
    OcrTextSelectorModule
  ],
  bootstrap: [AppComponent]
})
export class AppModule {}

2. Add the Component

<ocr-text-selector
  [imageSrc]="'assets/sample.jpg'"
  (textSelected)="onTextSelected($event)">
</ocr-text-selector>

3. Handle the Event

onTextSelected(text: string) {
  console.log('User selected:', text);
  alert('Selected: ' + text);
}