TheJoeFin/Text-Grab

Use OCR in Windows quickly and easily with Text Grab. With optional background process and notifications.

4 mentions on Hacker News by 4 people: 2 stories, 2 comments · first 2022-09-08 · latest 2025-03-05

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…anyone wants a similar tool for Windows that does the OCR locally instead, I recommend Text Grab ( https://github.com/TheJoeFin/Text-Grab ).
comment by mubou · 2025-03-05 · in I built an extension that lets you extract text from anywhere to your clipboard
…a third party program to expose it. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/uwp/api/windows.media.ocr?... https://github.com/TheJoeFin/Text-Grab
comment by Angelore · 2024-06-12 · in Microsoft will switch off Recall by default after security backlash
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Text-Grab: Use OCR in Windows Quickly and Easily
story by thunderbong · 2022-10-28 · 0 comments
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Text-Grab: Use OCR to quickly and easily copy any text from your screen
story by notRobot · 2022-09-08 · 1 comment