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
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Text Grab 4.7 brings productivity boosters!
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!
How to use Tesseract in Text Grab
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
Text Grab v4.4.1 rolling out
Minor update to Text Grab is rolling out. Version 4.4.1 brings mostly bug fixes to the settings pages. Also when Text Grab was installed via the Microsoft Store, new updates would wipe the settings, now that shouldn't happen! Thank you to all the users who have reached out in the past month! It is always … Continue reading Text Grab v4.4.1 rolling out
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
