I have been looking for a good example of how to do a perspective crop in WPF for some time now. I recently found the term Affine transformation and found this blog post by Charles Petzold https://www.charlespetzold.com/blog/2007/08/250638.html It looked useful so I reached out to Charles and asked if I could modernize the code and … Continue reading Non-Affine Transforms in 2D with WPF
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The best Windows QR Code app in 2024
Windows 11 is home to many great productivity apps, but if it's a QR Code app that you need, there's no doubt that there's plenty of options to choose from. Not all are created the same, though. Sometimes something as innocent as scanning a QR code for a website or a Wi-Fi password could mean … Continue reading The best Windows QR Code app in 2024
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
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
What is a Windows Icon file and why is it important?
When you use a Windows computer, almost everything has a file association and format for the operating system to understand. It usually comes at the end of the file name, too. You're probably already familiar with an app like Microsoft Word, which uses the DOCX file association and format, but there are some more complex … Continue reading What is a Windows Icon file and why is it important?
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