Tesseract doesn't accept process substitution
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I'm making a quick script that is supposed to use OCR tool (
tesseract
) on image in clipboard to convert it to text and output it. It looks like this:
#!/bin/sh
temp="$(mktemp tmpXXX.png)"
xclip -selection clipboard -t image/png -o > $temp
tesseract $temp stdout 2>/dev/null
rm $temp
What I'm wondering is why doesn't this one-liner tesseract <(xclip -selection clipboard -t image/png -o) stdout
work?
From what I know, process substitution is supposed to make temporary file (similar to my full script) that tesseract
uses as input file. Alas, this leads to an error:
Error in pixReadStream: Unknown format: no pix returned
Error in pixRead: pix not read
Error during processing.
Does anybody have an idea why this happens?
Thanks in advance.
Asked by Fedja
(125 rep)
Apr 4, 2022, 05:08 PM
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