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Hasn't OCR been around for ages now, and doesn't need dedicated hardware? I think the main limitation is putting the infrastructure in place to allow a browser to speak to an accessibility tool (because this is an accessibility issue) and say "give me all the text on screen which is embedded in images".
Personally, I don't really want any AI tools. I don't want my system trying to preempt what I want to do and half arse it, when I could always just do it myself. I want to know exactly what my system is doing and not have it "helpfully" do or change things it thinks I might want it to.
I was thinking more along the lines of something that is application agnostic i.e If it is on your display, the tool can grab it
I personally have a script that allows me to press a keybinding and then select some part of the display after which it copies the contents to my clipboard as text. Are you looking for something like that?
Here it is, it should work on both Wayland and X11, but does require having spectacle and tesseract installed.