Is there "Text Extractor" tool (from Windows Powertoys) equivalent in linux?

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  1. tesseract-ocr

    Tesseract Open Source OCR Engine (main repository)

  2. InfluxDB

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  3. normcap

    OCR powered screen-capture tool to capture information instead of images

    but i just found this https://github.com/dynobo/normcap from their readme, using tesseract as its backend, looks like nice replacement for text extractor.

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