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Interestingly, I REALLY want the exact OPPOSITE of this.

Many times it's just so frustratingly difficult to take a screenshot of something on a computer screen and send it over one of the several mobile messaging apps that don't have a good desktop client, so I end up just taking a picture of the physical computer screen with my mobile phone. It looks like shit but I'm lazy. I really wish a piece of software could recognize what I just took a picture of and then pull the actual data from that portion of the screen, send the screen data over bluetooth or Wi-Fi or whatever to the phone, and "fix" the screenshot.



I had a similar problem a decade ago. Had a lot of paper bureaucracy in my life, didn't have a scanner on me at all times obviously. So I wrote an app that undoes the perspective: https://github.com/akalenuk/Docam


On Apple devices ”Universal Clipboard” (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT209460) works fairly well for that (’fairly’ because, in my experience, it doesn’t always work in one go)


'KDE connect' has a similar shared clipboard, also very low friction local network file sharing IME, works on Android with either Windows or Linux (and maybe other systems too?).




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