Release 0.28.0 - The screen can now be read back as text

[dexif]

You are in a BIOS, looking at a serial number or an error code, and you need it somewhere else. Until now the only way was to type it out by hand off the picture.

ESP-KVM 0.28.0 reads that screen as text. Press Select and sweep the mouse over it as if it were a page, or press Copy and take the whole screen.

It is not OCR, and that is the point. A text screen is drawn by a character generator - a fixed grid, a fixed bitmap per character - so each cell is looked up in a table of the shapes the font has. Either a cell matches and the character is certain, or it comes back as an unreadable marker you can see. No "recognised with errors" to catch you out later.

ESP-KVM_text_select.mp4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yUuZSLZSz0