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title: Install Offline Screen Region OCR on CentOS using the Snap Store | Snapcraft
description: Get the latest version of Offline Screen Region OCR for on CentOS - Offline
  screen region capture and optical character recognition grabber
url: https://snapcraft.io/install/screen-ocr-grabber/centos
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# Install Offline Screen Region OCR on **CentOS**

# Offline Screen Region OCR (screen-ocr-grabber)

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[Install](https://snapcraft.io/install/screen-ocr-grabber/centos#install)

#### Offline screen region capture and optical character recognition grabber

Offline Screen Region OCR is an independent open-source Linux alternative to
Capture2Text and Text Grab for instant offline screen-region text extraction
and clipboard capture. It is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by
the authors of Capture2Text or Text Grab.

FEATURES

* Translucent Crosshair Region Snipper: Capture any screen rectangle across
  single or multi-monitor X11 desktops using a fullscreen rubber-band overlay
  or global X11 hotkey (Ctrl+Alt+T), or load PNG/JPG files and clipboard images.
* Image Preprocessing Pipeline: Automatic 1x/2x/3x smooth upscaling for crisp
  small UI fonts, grayscale contrast normalization, optional dark-background
  auto-inversion, Otsu adaptive thresholding, and quiet border padding.
* Bundled Offline Tesseract 4 OCR Engine: Zero cloud uploads — ships complete
  offline English (eng) and Vietnamese (vie) language models with selectable
  page segmentation modes (Auto, Single Block, Single Line, Sparse Text).
* Instant Clipboard & Live Confidence Metrics: Copies recognized text directly
  to the system clipboard alongside word count, character count, and mean
  Tesseract per-word confidence score.
* SQLite OCR History & Export: Browse searchable capture history with saved
  region thumbnails, re-copy past extractions, and export to TXT, Markdown,
  or UTF-8 CSV files.

SUPPORT & DONATE

* Created by Thanh Nguyen — <https://buymeacoffee.com/thanhnv128b>

### Package name

* screen-ocr-grabber

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### License

* MIT

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### Last updated

* 14 November 2026 - latest/stable

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### Websites

* [buymeacoffee.com](https://buymeacoffee.com/thanhnv128b "https://buymeacoffee.com/thanhnv128b")

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### Contact

* [buymeacoffee.com](https://buymeacoffee.com/thanhnv128b "https://buymeacoffee.com/thanhnv128b")

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## Enable snaps on CentOS and install Offline Screen Region OCR

Snaps are applications packaged with all their dependencies to run on all popular Linux distributions from a single build. They update automatically and roll back gracefully.

Snaps are discoverable and installable from the [Snap Store](https://snapcraft.io/store), an app store with an audience of millions.

### Enable snapd

Snap is available for [CentOS 7.6+](https://snapcraft.io/install/screen-ocr-grabber/centos), and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6+, from the [Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux](https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL) (EPEL) repository. The EPEL repository can be added to your system with the following command:

```
sudo yum install epel-release
```

Snap can now be installed as follows:

```
sudo yum install snapd
```

Once installed, the *systemd* unit that manages the main snap communication socket needs to be enabled:

```
sudo systemctl enable --now snapd.socket
```

To enable *classic* snap support, enter the following to create a symbolic link between `/var/lib/snapd/snap` and `/snap`:

```
sudo ln -s /var/lib/snapd/snap /snap
```

Either log out and back in again, or restart your system, to ensure snap’s paths are updated correctly.

### Install Offline Screen Region OCR

To install Offline Screen Region OCR, simply use the following command:

```
sudo snap install screen-ocr-grabber
```

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