# Screenshot then OCR?

**URL:** <https://community.folivora.ai/t/screenshot-then-ocr/47721>\
**Category:** Configuration Help & General Discussion\
**Created:** [September 9, 2026, 11:08am UTC](https://community.folivora.ai/t/screenshot-then-ocr/47721 "2026-09-09T11:08:15Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![frex](https://community.folivora.ai/user_avatar/community.folivora.ai/frex/32/31543_2.png) [@frex](https://community.folivora.ai/u/frex)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2026, 11:08am UTC](https://community.folivora.ai/t/screenshot-then-ocr/47721/1 "2026-09-09T11:08:15Z")

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How do I do an interactive screenshot then OCR? It seems OCR action starts before the screenshot is done?

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**Author:** ![Andreas\_Hegenberg](https://community.folivora.ai/user_avatar/community.folivora.ai/andreas_hegenberg/32/39221_2.png) [@Andreas\_Hegenberg](https://community.folivora.ai/u/Andreas_Hegenberg)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2026, 11:24am UTC](https://community.folivora.ai/t/screenshot-then-ocr/47721/2 "2026-09-09T11:24:51Z")

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you can for example use the "Copy Screenshot To Clipboard" action which automatically handles waiting for clipboard changes:

 ![image](https://community.folivora.ai/uploads/default/original/3X/1/7/17589190a3a66e7cb9f1234cdf7baa13709882e2.webp)

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**Author:** ![83652886](https://community.folivora.ai/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/8/b9bd4f/32.png) [@83652886](https://community.folivora.ai/u/83652886)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2026, 4:49pm UTC](https://community.folivora.ai/t/screenshot-then-ocr/47721/3 "2026-10-20T16:49:31Z")

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I tried this and it didn't work, added a .3 second delay and it also didn't work. I'm including the code below for reference.

```auto
[
  {
    "BTTLastUpdatedAt" : 1792514802.6712799,
    "BTTTriggerType" : 0,
    "BTTTriggerClass" : "BTTTriggerTypeKeyboardShortcut",
    "BTTUUID" : "B47CEAA0-08EC-40DB-93B9-D4BA0068B75B",
    "BTTAdditionalConfiguration" : "1179658",
    "BTTShortcutKeyboardType" : -2052004921,
    "BTTTriggerOnDown" : 1,
    "BTTLayoutIndependentChar" : "2",
    "BTTShortcutKeyCode" : 19,
    "BTTShortcutAdvancedModifierKeys" : "1179658",
    "BTTShortcutModifierKeys" : 1179648,
    "BTTOrder" : 8,
    "BTTAutoAdaptToKeyboardLayout" : 0,
    "BTTActionsToExecute" : [
      {
        "BTTLastUpdatedAt" : 1792514798.2354851,
        "BTTTriggerParentUUID" : "B47CEAA0-08EC-40DB-93B9-D4BA0068B75B",
        "BTTIsPureAction" : true,
        "BTTUUID" : "D40A6B29-BD0D-4452-BED6-87D715CDF9A5",
        "BTTPredefinedActionType" : 500,
        "BTTPredefinedActionName" : "Capture Screenshot to Clipboard",
        "BTTOrder" : 314
      },
      {
        "BTTLastUpdatedAt" : 1792514805.4032412,
        "BTTTriggerParentUUID" : "B47CEAA0-08EC-40DB-93B9-D4BA0068B75B",
        "BTTIsPureAction" : true,
        "BTTUUID" : "C29AA56F-3C83-4AA5-BB3C-C461528A5288",
        "BTTPredefinedActionType" : 498,
        "BTTPredefinedActionName" : "OCR or Recognize or Extract Text From Clipboard Contents or Image File",
        "BTTAdditionalActionData" : {
          "BTTOCRJoinFoundStringsWithCharacter" : "\\n",
          "BTTOCRJoinBasedOnScreenCoordinates" : true,
          "BTTOCRAutoDetectLanguage" : true
        },
        "BTTOrder" : 315
      }
    ],
    "BTTTriggerLauncherConfig" : {
      "BTTLauncherShowInLauncher" : 0
    }
  }
]

```

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**Author:** ![Andreas\_Hegenberg](https://community.folivora.ai/user_avatar/community.folivora.ai/andreas_hegenberg/32/39221_2.png) [@Andreas\_Hegenberg](https://community.folivora.ai/u/Andreas_Hegenberg)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2026, 4:57pm UTC](https://community.folivora.ai/t/screenshot-then-ocr/47721/4 "2026-10-20T16:57:04Z")

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@83652886 you trigger the OCR but don't do anything with the result.

Try this which displays the ocr result and puts it to clipboard:  
[ocr.bttpreset](https://community.folivora.ai/uploads/short-url/qdZqHvPolKIPaaO7tsPe6Bb8pvU.bttpreset) (4.5 KB)

 ![image](https://community.folivora.ai/uploads/default/original/3X/7/d/7d5783ce1106aaf24c38bd5a55d3eb3c8f326243.webp)