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
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How to install Tesseract OCR in Windows
Once you have WinGet installed, you can install Tesseract via WinGet with a simple command. Open a PowerShell or Command Prompt window and type the following command: winget install -e --id UB-Mannheim.TesseractOCR This will install the latest version of Tesseract and its dependencies on your system. You can verify the installation by typing the following … Continue reading How to install Tesseract OCR in Windows
Can Windows do OCR? Yes!
Optical Character Recognition, often referred to as OCR, is a technology that enables you to convert text store as pixels in different types of documents, such as scanned paper documents, PDF files or images captured by a digital camera, into editable and searchable data. But can your Windows operating system perform OCR? Yes, but there's … Continue reading Can Windows do OCR? Yes!
