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
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
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
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
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!
