The new Windows AI OCR models are coming to Text Grab in the latest Store version of the app. The restriction to the packaged Store version is set by Microsoft. Also the current supported hardware as of writing this is fairly narrowly limited to devices with NPUs. However the calls checking for compatibility do not … Continue reading Windows AI Comes to Text Grab
With Microsoft //Build right around the corner there is little wonder about what will be the major theme of the show... AI. But if you've been paying attention you know the cat is already out of the bag! Local AI APIs are available for Windows developers today and implementing them is easy! There is already … Continue reading Adding local AI to Windows apps is super easy
The latest version of Text Grab is out now and brings improvements to the Grab Frame, Quick Simple Lookup, and the Edit Text Window! Grab Frame Edit the image in the Grab Frame by: Inverting colors Increasing contrast Adjusting brightness Improved the position when pasting and image Quick Simple Lookup Search with RegEx Search using … Continue reading Text Grab 4.8: Improvements all around
Fresh off the complier is Text Grab 4.7 with two awesome productivity boosters in tow. Text Grab has had a history for a few releases but now the Quick Simple Lookup mode can search and open items from your history. The original use case of Text Grab was the Full Screen Grab mode and it … Continue reading Text Grab 4.7 brings productivity boosters!
For many years Tesseract has been the steady state of the art for OCR models. When I originally build Text Grab in my research I found many tools which used Tesseract as their models. I chose to go with the built in APIs to Windows because they were easier to target APIs, simpler language management, … Continue reading How to use Tesseract in Text Grab
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