feat(capture): OCR region to clipboard (LATER item)

Tools › Capture gains "OCR region → clipboard", self-gated on
tesseract: slurp the region (Esc cancels silently, the recording.nix
pattern), grim it, tesseract stdin→stdout, wl-copy. Whitespace-only
recognition toasts "No text recognized" instead of clobbering the
clipboard; success toasts the word count. tesseract ships English-only
through the menu's package set — the unscoped wrapper pulls every
language's traineddata, a real cost on a compile-from-source distro;
overriding with more languages is documented at the package line.

Verified: V0; V1 — template-home builds with the gated row + case and
menu bash -n; functional — the profile's own tesseract read a rendered
test image back verbatim, proving the OCR half of the pipe. The
grim/slurp half needs a session → HARDWARE-QUEUE.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

agent/BACKLOG.md

@@ -234,9 +234,6 @@ them as composable commands, not dead ends.
 - **Night-light geo mode**: lat/long auto sunset/sunrise (means wlsunset).
 - **Per-theme icon overrides** / more icon packs (ROADMAP § Icon themes).
 - **MIPI/IPU software-ISP camera** support (no-UVC machines).
-- **OCR screenshot-to-text**: a Capture › entry (grim region → tesseract
-  → clipboard) — recording (#12, shipped 2026-07-04) already reshaped
-  the submenu, so this is now a two-row addition.
 - **Doctor Waybar warning**: a self-gating bar indicator fed by
   `nomarchy-doctor` (shipped 2026-07-04) — appears only when the sheet
   has a ✖; click opens the sheet.

agent/HARDWARE-QUEUE.md

@@ -167,6 +167,11 @@ QA machine), the **T14s** (webcam case).
       (tooltips, fastfetch labels) is visible on summer-day +
       flexoki-light, kanagawa floats are lighter than the bg (upstream
       sumiInk4). Anything that reads worse than before → reopen 28b.
+- [ ] **OCR region (LATER item)** — Tools › Capture › "OCR region →
+      clipboard": select a region with visible text → toast reports
+      the word count and `wl-paste` yields the text; Esc in slurp
+      cancels silently; a text-free region toasts "No text recognized"
+      without clobbering the clipboard.
 - [ ] **Look & Feel submenu (item 19)** — root menu: "Look & Feel"
       (replacing Theme, root still six rows) → Theme grid opens, Next
       wallpaper cycles instantly, Night light toggles (and is GONE

agent/JOURNAL.md

@@ -17,6 +17,26 @@ Template:
 
 ---
 
+## 2026-07-05 — OCR screenshot-to-text (iteration #41, LATER item)
+- **Task:** LATER › OCR (NEXT is fully human/event-gated, so LATER is
+  in play per LOOP.md). Bullet deleted.
+- **Did:** Capture › "OCR region → clipboard" (self-gated on
+  tesseract): slurp (Esc = silent cancel, the recording pattern) →
+  grim → tesseract stdin/stdout → wl-copy, whitespace-only results
+  toast instead of clobbering the clipboard; success toasts the word
+  count. tesseract ships eng-only via rofi.nix home.packages
+  (override documented — unscoped it drags every language's
+  traineddata, real cost on a compile-from-source distro).
+- **Verified:** V0; V1 — template-home builds, menu bash -n, gated
+  row + case present; FUNCTIONAL — the profile's own tesseract read a
+  rendered test image back verbatim ("Nomarchy OCR smoke test 42"),
+  so the OCR half of the pipe is proven; grim/slurp half needs a
+  session → V3 queued.
+- **Pending:** V3.
+- **Next suggestion:** LATER: doctor Waybar warning (self-gating bar
+  indicator fed by nomarchy-doctor) or auto-timezone tooltip; both
+  small.
+
 ## 2026-07-05 — Look & Feel menu category (iteration #40, item 19)
 - **Task:** BACKLOG NEXT#19 — its ≥3-entries gate is met (Theme, Next
   wallpaper, Night light). Item deleted.

modules/home/rofi.nix

@@ -370,6 +370,7 @@ ${themeRows}
           row "Region → file"           applets-screenshooter
           row "Full screen → clipboard" camera-photo
           row "Full screen → file"      camera-photo
+          command -v tesseract >/dev/null 2>&1 && row "OCR region → clipboard" scanner
           if command -v nomarchy-record >/dev/null 2>&1; then
             if nomarchy-record active; then
               row "■ Stop recording" media-playback-stop
@@ -389,6 +390,16 @@ ${themeRows}
           *"Region → clipboard"*)      grim -g "$(slurp)" - | wl-copy ;;
           *"Region → file"*)           mkdir -p "$dir"; grim -g "$(slurp)" "$file" \
                                          && notify-send "Screenshot saved" "$file" ;;
+          *"OCR region"*)
+            # Select → screenshot → tesseract → clipboard. Esc in slurp
+            # cancels silently (the recording.nix pattern); recognizing
+            # nothing toasts instead of copying an empty clipboard.
+            geo=$(slurp) || exit 0
+            txt=$(grim -g "$geo" - | tesseract stdin stdout 2>/dev/null)
+            [ -n "''${txt//[[:space:]]/}" ] \
+              || { notify-send "OCR" "No text recognized in that region."; exit 0; }
+            printf '%s' "$txt" | wl-copy
+            notify-send "OCR" "Copied $(printf '%s' "$txt" | wc -w) word(s) to the clipboard." ;;
           *"Full screen → clipboard"*) grim - | wl-copy ;;
           *"Full screen → file"*)      mkdir -p "$dir"; grim "$file" \
                                          && notify-send "Screenshot saved" "$file" ;;
@@ -796,6 +807,10 @@ in
       pkgs.nodejs                # npx, for the Ask Claude module (claude-code from npm)
       pkgs.networkmanager_dmenu  # network module: rofi wifi/VPN picker
       pkgs.rofi-pulse-select     # audio module: sink/source switcher
+      # Capture › OCR region: English only — the unscoped wrapper drags
+      # in every language's traineddata, a real cost on a compile-from-
+      # source distro. More languages: override in your home.nix.
+      (pkgs.tesseract.override { enableLanguages = [ "eng" ]; })
     ];
 
     # networkmanager_dmenu drives rofi (not bare dmenu) and uses rofi's