I couldn’t configure the spectacle in my fedora 43 plasma as extract text option is enabled. version of the apps: (base) omerg@fedora:~$ tesseract --version tesseract 5.5.2 leptonica-1.87.0 libgif 5.2.2 : libjpeg 6b (libjpeg-turbo 3.1.2) : libpng 1.6.53 : libtiff 4.7.1 : zlib 1.3.1.zlib-ng : li…

That feature is coming in Plasma 6.6, so it’s not in Fedora 43 yet. If you’re confident installing a beta of Plasma 6.6 from a COPR, you could test it that way: [image] KDE Plasma BETA Release 6.5.90 (6.6 Beta) is now in the kde-beta COPR! Project Discussion …

I tested this in Rawhide (which also has the Plasma 6.6 beta) and unfortunately I can’t get it working. The Spectacle options screens show that OCR “should” be available, but it fails to find the necessary tesseract libs even though the package is installed. Bug ticket: 2435519 – Specta…

I just installed the latest packages as of today. Upgraded to Plasma 6.6, Fedora 43. No OCR in Spectacle. spectacle.x86_64 1:6.6.0-1.fc43

I had the same issue, updated today. Got a prompt with all the new KDE features including OCR. But it was missing from spectacle. Fedora 43 KDE 6.6.0 Fixed it by installing: sudo dnf install tesseract-devel sudo dnf install tesseract It’s possbile to install language packs, find them by using: s…

[image] Illya: sudo dnf install tesseract-devel Nice find! tesseract-devel seems to install /usr/lib64/libtesseract.so, which Spectacle can find (unlike the library files from plain tesseract).

If you run spectacle on the command line, you’ll see exactly which library it’s looking for; in my case (Fedora 43, updated wih KDE 6.6 in 2026-02-18), it’s libtesseract.so.5 . The tesseract-libs-5.5.2-1.fc43.x86_64.rpm package, however, constains only libtesseract.so.5.5 and libtesseract.so.5.5.2,…

the workaround published today seems to work well. At least it’s ok on my fedora 43

[image] P G: tesseract-devel seems to install /usr/lib64/libtesseract.so, which Spectacle can find (unlike the library files from plain tesseract). With the updated spectacle-6.6.0-2.fc43 , OCR should now work as long as tesseract is installed, with no need for tesseract-devel.

[image] P G: With the updated spectacle-6.6.0-2.fc43 , OCR should now work as long as tesseract is installed, with no need for tesseract-devel. I still needed to install “tesseract-devel” using “spectacle-1:6.6.3-1.fc43”.

[image] John Doe: I still needed to install “tesseract-devel” using “spectacle-1:6.6.3-1.fc43”. Good catch, this looks like a regression. I can reproduce - I have the following packages installed (note, no tesseract-devel): $ dnf list --installed "tesseract*" Installed packages tesseract-co…

Reported this on the upstream KDE bug , and reopened the RHBZ bug .

Spectacle 6.5.5 on Fedora 43 missing OCR “Extract Text” feature despite Tesseract being installed

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forboi (John Doe) March 26, 2026, 5:58pm 10

I still needed to install “tesseract-devel” using “spectacle-1:6.6.3-1.fc43”.

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