The best Windows QR Code app in 2024

Windows 11 is home to many great productivity apps, but if it's a QR Code app that you need, there's no doubt that there's plenty of options to choose from. Not all are created the same, though. Sometimes something as innocent as scanning a QR code for a website or a Wi-Fi password could mean … Continue reading The best Windows QR Code app in 2024

How to use Windows OCR with Text Grab in a few easy steps

Windows 10 and Windows 11 ship with a feature known as the Windows OCR under the hood. Windows OCR, short for Windows Optical Character Recognition, is a pretty nifty ability since it can be used by apps to lift the text from the pixels in images and copy it to your clipboard. Unfortunately, though there's … Continue reading How to use Windows OCR with Text Grab in a few easy steps

Does Windows 10 have OCR software?

Optical Character Recognition, or OCR for short, is a pretty nifty feature. Thanks to OCR, you can copy and turn whatever you see in an image on your PC into a piece of editable text. It could be a scan of receipt, something from an instructional video on YouTube, or something from a simple PDF … Continue reading Does Windows 10 have OCR software?

What is Windows OCR and how do apps use it?

There's many cool inner workings that make Windows run smooth everyday, but are you wondering what is Windows OCR? There's a chance that you've probably heard of this one way or another anyway, as apps like OneNote support the OCR natively. Well, to answer that question, Windows OCR is short for Windows Optical Character Recognition. … Continue reading What is Windows OCR and how do apps use it?