Commandline tool to find text from video file using OCR!
I recorded +1hr clip that had some personal info in few frames, but cannot find where it was.. So, i think its easier to write tool to search text from video, that trying to find those frames by scrubbing video. Lets see?
Still have things todo #2
- Clone repo
- Open project in Visual Studio
- Download Tesseract language file from https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tessdata
- If you use English, then take: https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tessdata/raw/refs/heads/main/eng.traineddata
- Place data file in the build output folder, under: tessdata/ next to where your FindTextFromVideo.exe file is
- Build it
- Use from commandline
- FindTextFromVideo.exe "text to search" videofile.mkv
- Press ctrl+c to stop
