"This is a minimal optical character recognition (OCR) utility for
Windows 10/11 which makes all visible text available to be copied.
Too often text is trapped within images, videos, or within parts of applications and cannot be selected. Text Grab takes a screenshot,
passes that image to the OCR engine, then puts the text into the
clipboard for use anywhere. The OCR is done locally by Windows API
( https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/uwp/api/Windows.Media.Ocr ). This
enables Text Grab to have essentially no UI and not require a constantly running background process. Working with text can be much more than just copying text from images, so Text Grab has a range of different modes to
make working with text fast and easy."
Portable - Standalone File
Home Page
https://github.com/TheJoeFin/Text-Grab
Release Notes
https://github.com/TheJoeFin/Text-Grab/releases/latest
Portable Download https://github.com/TheJoeFin/Text-Grab/releases/download/v4.11.2/Text- Grab-x64-Self-Contained-2025-12-18.zip
On 25/12/19 03:32 AM, Allan Higdon wrote:
"This is a minimal optical character recognition (OCR) utility for
Windows 10/11 which makes all visible text available to be copied.
Too often text is trapped within images, videos, or within parts of
applications and cannot be selected. Text Grab takes a screenshot,
passes that image to the OCR engine, then puts the text into the
clipboard for use anywhere. The OCR is done locally by Windows API
( https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/uwp/api/Windows.Media.Ocr ). This
enables Text Grab to have essentially no UI and not require a constantly
running background process. Working with text can be much more than just
copying text from images, so Text Grab has a range of different modes to
make working with text fast and easy."
Portable - Standalone File
Home Page
https://github.com/TheJoeFin/Text-Grab
Release Notes
https://github.com/TheJoeFin/Text-Grab/releases/latest
Portable Download
https://github.com/TheJoeFin/Text-Grab/releases/download/v4.11.2/Text-
Grab-x64-Self-Contained-2025-12-18.zip
Trialware?
https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9mznkqj7sl0b?hl=en-US&gl=US
$9.99
On Sun, 21 Dec 2025 07:18:16 -0600, John C. <r9jmg0@yahoo.com> wrote:
On 25/12/19 03:32 AM, Allan Higdon wrote:
"This is a minimal optical character recognition (OCR) utility for
Windows 10/11 which makes all visible text available to be copied.
Too often text is trapped within images, videos, or within parts of
applications and cannot be selected. Text Grab takes a screenshot,
passes that image to the OCR engine, then puts the text into the
clipboard for use anywhere. The OCR is done locally by Windows API
( https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/uwp/api/Windows.Media.Ocr ). This
enables Text Grab to have essentially no UI and not require a constantly >>> running background process. Working with text can be much more than just >>> copying text from images, so Text Grab has a range of different modes to >>> make working with text fast and easy."
Portable - Standalone File
Home Page
https://github.com/TheJoeFin/Text-Grab
Release Notes
https://github.com/TheJoeFin/Text-Grab/releases/latest
Portable Download
https://github.com/TheJoeFin/Text-Grab/releases/download/v4.11.2/Text-
Grab-x64-Self-Contained-2025-12-18.zip
Trialware?
https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9mznkqj7sl0b?hl=en-US&gl=US
$9.99
"Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
copies or substantial portions of the Software."
https://github.com/TheJoeFin/Text-Grab?tab=MIT-1-ov-file
On Sun, 21 Dec 2025 07:46:35 -0600, Allan Higdon <allanh@vivaldi.net>
wrote:
On Sun, 21 Dec 2025 07:18:16 -0600, John C. <r9jmg0@yahoo.com> wrote:
On 25/12/19 03:32 AM, Allan Higdon wrote:
"This is a minimal optical character recognition (OCR) utility for
Windows 10/11 which makes all visible text available to be copied.
Too often text is trapped within images, videos, or within parts of
applications and cannot be selected. Text Grab takes a screenshot,
passes that image to the OCR engine, then puts the text into the
clipboard for use anywhere. The OCR is done locally by Windows API
( https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/uwp/api/Windows.Media.Ocr ). This
enables Text Grab to have essentially no UI and not require a
constantly
running background process. Working with text can be much more than
just
copying text from images, so Text Grab has a range of different
modes to
make working with text fast and easy."
Portable - Standalone File
Home Page
https://github.com/TheJoeFin/Text-Grab
Release Notes
https://github.com/TheJoeFin/Text-Grab/releases/latest
Portable Download
https://github.com/TheJoeFin/Text-Grab/releases/download/v4.11.2/Text- >>>> Grab-x64-Self-Contained-2025-12-18.zip
Trialware?
https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9mznkqj7sl0b?hl=en-US&gl=US
$9.99
"Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"),
to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the
rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
included in all
copies or substantial portions of the Software."
https://github.com/TheJoeFin/Text-Grab?tab=MIT-1-ov-file
I thought that you could let us know how well the program worked for you since I previously posted it Sep. 30. https://newsgrouper.org/alt.comp.freeware/search/1759227140
On 25/12/21 06:08 AM, Allan Higdon wrote:
On Sun, 21 Dec 2025 07:46:35 -0600, Allan Higdon <allanh@vivaldi.net>
wrote:
On Sun, 21 Dec 2025 07:18:16 -0600, John C. <r9jmg0@yahoo.com> wrote:
On 25/12/19 03:32 AM, Allan Higdon wrote:
"This is a minimal optical character recognition (OCR) utility for
Windows 10/11 which makes all visible text available to be copied.
Too often text is trapped within images, videos, or within parts of
applications and cannot be selected. Text Grab takes a screenshot,
passes that image to the OCR engine, then puts the text into the
clipboard for use anywhere. The OCR is done locally by Windows API
( https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/uwp/api/Windows.Media.Ocr ). This >>>>> enables Text Grab to have essentially no UI and not require a
constantly
running background process. Working with text can be much more than
just
copying text from images, so Text Grab has a range of different
modes to
make working with text fast and easy."
Portable - Standalone File
Home Page
https://github.com/TheJoeFin/Text-Grab
Release Notes
https://github.com/TheJoeFin/Text-Grab/releases/latest
Portable Download
https://github.com/TheJoeFin/Text-Grab/releases/download/v4.11.2/Text- >>>>> Grab-x64-Self-Contained-2025-12-18.zip
Trialware?
https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9mznkqj7sl0b?hl=en-US&gl=US
$9.99
"Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"),
to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the
rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell >>> copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
included in all
copies or substantial portions of the Software."
https://github.com/TheJoeFin/Text-Grab?tab=MIT-1-ov-file
I thought that you could let us know how well the program worked for you
since I previously posted it Sep. 30.
https://newsgrouper.org/alt.comp.freeware/search/1759227140
I was just looking at it. Haven't tried it yet.
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