This project provides a Python script that cleans text from the clipboard by removing unnecessary spaces from text extracted from PDFs (principally but not exclusively). The goal is to make it easier to handle pasted text, making it more readable and ready for use in other applications.

clean_text.py is a simple script that uses xclip to get text from the clipboard, cleans unnecessary spaces, and puts the cleaned text back into the clipboard. This script is especially useful for those working with text extracted from PDFs who want to automatically remove unwanted spaces.

Make sure you have the following prerequisites installed on your system:

• Python 3.x
• xclip

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/r0bertds/clean-text-clipboard.git /
   cd clean-text-clipboard

2. Make the script executable:

   chmod +x clean_text.py
   

3. Usage

3.1. Copy the text you want to clean to the clipboard.

3.2. Run the script manually:

xclip -o | python3 clean_text.py | xclip -selection clipboard

or set up a shortcut. In this case, I will use an example for the i3wm config file to run the script with an example command:

bindsym $mod+Shift+ç exec "xclip -o | python3 /path/to/clean_text.py | xclip -selection clipboard"

Paste the cleaned text wherever you need.

Contributions are welcome! Feel free to open an issue or submit a pull request with improvements and fixes.

Fork the repository

• Create a branch for your feature or bug fix (git checkout -b feature/MyFeature)
• Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Added MyFeature')
• Push to the branch (git push origin feature/MyFeature)
• Open a Pull Request

For more information, please contact:

• Email: [email protected]

• GitHub: r0bert