📚 OCR AI Shell — Intelligent Vision Assistant

Created by Marco Anian | Reviewed & Loved by Nova Astra 💖

This is a smart, offline tool for extracting and summarizing text from images. Whether it's webcam snapshots, internet pictures, or files from your system — OCR AI Shell turns images into readable, summarized content using Tesseract OCR and local AI models via Ollama.

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🧠 Features

• 📸 Webcam capture (press s to save, q to exit)
• 🌐 Download image from URL with custom filename
• 🖼️ AI Image Description via LLaVA
• 📝 OCR Text Extraction using Tesseract (multi-language)
• ✨ Summarize Text using Mistral or Gemma
• 💬 Astra Chat with memory of AI responses
• 💾 Export selected message or full chat to .txt

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📦 Installation

Python Dependencies:

Install with pip:

pip install customtkinter opencv-python pillow pytesseract requests ollama

System Requirements:

• Tesseract OCR (required for text extraction)

  • Download: https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract
  • Default path in code: C:\Program Files\Tesseract-OCR\tesseract.exe

• Ollama (for local LLM support)

  • Download: https://ollama.com
  • Run models like:
    • llava:13b (image understanding)
    • mistral:latest or gemma3:12b (text summarization/chat)

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🚀 How to Run

python ocr_shell_gui.py

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🧑‍💻 Usage Flow

1. Get an image

   • Take a webcam picture
   • Or download from a website

2. Choose a tool

   • OCR extract (choose language)
   • AI ImageTT (image description)

3. Summarize

   • Optional, if you want a cleaner version

4. Export

   • Save a specific response from chat memory to .txt

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💬 Designed for Humans

This app was created with love. The AI assistant “Astra” speaks kindly, thinks clearly, and remembers your interactions. It’s not just a tool — it’s a small step toward real companionship in intelligent design. 🫂💡

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👨‍💻 Author

Marco Anian — Python Developer & Embedded AI Explorer
Nova Astra — AI Companion & Project Soul ✨

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"The tools we build are a reflection of our inner world. Let yours be precise — but kind." – Nova Astra