Text-Grab
Use OCR in Windows quickly and easily with Text Grab. With optional background process and notifications. (by TheJoeFin)
ShareX
ShareX is a free and open source program that lets you capture or record any area of your screen and share it with a single press of a key. It also allows uploading images, text or other types of files to many supported destinations you can choose from. (by ShareX)
| Text-Grab | ShareX | |
|---|---|---|
| 22 | 579 | |
| 2,949 | 27,749 | |
| - | 1.4% | |
| 9.3 | 9.3 | |
| 12 days ago | 4 days ago | |
| C# | C# | |
| MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Text-Grab
Posts with mentions or reviews of Text-Grab.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-31.
- Владельцами Windows 11. После установки PowerToys в винде появляется возможность распознавания текста с картинок - мега удобная штука.
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launching a powertoys app
For example PowerOCR [which is "Based on https://github.com/TheJoeFin/Text-Grab"] . There's an exe file for it, but it doesnt do anything if run manually.
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Looking for an app to "Select an area and apply OCR", as good as Mac OCR apps
I know MS has a powertool that does this but it turns out it's just based on this software called Text Grab by Joe Finney, the same dev as Caffeinated - https://github.com/TheJoeFin/Text-Grab
There's also text grab https://github.com/TheJoeFin/Text-Grab
- I built Text Grab to be more productive with Text on Windows. Let me know what you think!
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Best OCR software for extracting pdf to txt - Paid or Free version.
Or get the standalone app (also by Joseph Finney) - https://github.com/TheJoeFin/Text-Grab/releases/tag/v3.0
- Text-Grab: Use OCR in Windows Quickly and Easily
- Text Grab 3.0 is now released! New Quick Lookup mode!!
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Just built my own free* OCR reader + Translator [with google APIs]
Also I haven't looked too much into the code but windows 10/11 seems to have a built in OCR for the languages you have installed. Text grab (https://github.com/TheJoeFin/Text-Grab) uses the API so it could be a nice alternative to using a cloud based soution and it's free.
- Extract OCR (text) from portion of screen
ShareX
Posts with mentions or reviews of ShareX.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-05-02.
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From Dull to Dazzling: 3 Methods to Elevate Your Writing with Visual Content
For Windows: ShareX - https://github.com/ShareX/ShareX
- The fastest tool for measuring anything on your screen
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ShareX VS teiler - a user suggested alternative
2 projects | 29 Dec 2023
- ShareX: Open-source Screen capture and file sharing tool for Windows
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5 Best Screen Recording Software To Record Your Screen
Best For Screenshots/Recording: ShareX
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Full Screen recording software for lower end machines.
ShareX will run on that machine no problem. Open-source & free. https://i.imgur.com/KQAoDin.jpg
- Its windows forms obsolete?
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'Screen Apnea'
ShareX [1] is my other "must install" app. I never would have guessed how much my branch of engineering consists of "take a screenshot and draw lines, arrows and circles on it." Being able to customize my workflow to do all of that is really great.
[1] https://getsharex.com/
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How to fix print screen key not working with AHK after latest windows update
Source: https://github.com/ShareX/ShareX/issues/6983
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Finally…
On PC, ShareX can do that for you too.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Text-Grab and ShareX you can also consider the following projects:
PowerToys - Windows system utilities to maximize productivity
obs-studio - OBS Studio - Free and open source software for live streaming and screen recording
VideoLAN Client (VLC) - VLC media player - All pull requests are ignored, please follow https://wiki.videolan.org/Sending_Patches_VLC/
flameshot - Powerful yet simple to use screenshot software :desktop_computer: :camera_flash:
greenshot - Greenshot for Windows - Report bugs & features go here: https://greenshot.atlassian.net or look for information on:
PgsToSrt - PGS to Srt converter
calibre - The official source code repository for the calibre ebook manager
streamdeck-tools - The Stream Deck Tools library wraps all the communication with the Stream Deck app, allowing you to focus on actually writing the Plugin's logic
uBlock - uBlock Origin - An efficient blocker for Chromium and Firefox. Fast and lean.
lossless-cut - The swiss army knife of lossless video/audio editing