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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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?
I was a guest on the .NET Rocks podcast!
On the latest episode of .NET Rocks I discuss Text Grab and what it is like making apps for Windows. Listen here: https://www.dotnetrocks.com/?show=1755
