zaje - extract and highlight text right off a remote image

by jessp01 1 year ago

GNU/Linux ◆ xterm-256color ◆ bash 398 views

zaje is a syntax highlighter that aims to cover all your shell colouring needs. It can act as an ad-hoc replacement for cat and, with a spot o f one-line shell functions tail and other friends.

super-zaje does everything zaje does but provides the additional functionality of extracting text from an image. It’s a separate binary because it depends on the gosseract which in turn depends on libtesseract and requires its SOs to be available on the machine.

This cast demonstrates how easy it is to use:)

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You can replay the downloaded recording in your terminal using the asciinema play command:

asciinema play 599707.cast

If you don't have asciinema CLI installed then see installation instructions.

Use with stand-alone player on your website

Download asciinema player from the releases page (you only need .js and .css file), then use it like this:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
  <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="asciinema-player.css" />
</head>
<body>
  <div id="player"></div>
  <script src="asciinema-player.min.js"></script>
  <script>
    AsciinemaPlayer.create(
      '/assets/599707.cast',
      document.getElementById('player'),
      { cols: 146, rows: 39 }
    );
  </script>
</body>
</html>

See asciinema player quick-start guide for full usage instructions.

While this site doesn't provide GIF conversion at the moment, you can still do it yourself with the help of asciinema GIF generator utility - agg.

Once you have it installed, generate a GIF with the following command:

agg https://asciinema.org/a/599707 demo.gif

Or, if you already downloaded the recording file:

agg demo.cast demo.gif

Check agg --help for all available options. You can change font family and size, select color theme, adjust speed and more.

See agg manual for full usage instructions.