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Home > Software > PowerToys is getting a new tool, PowerOCR

PowerToys is getting a new tool, PowerOCR

Microsoft PowerToys PowerOCR allows users to select and copy a text from an image directly to the Windows clipboard.


Erdem Yasar Erdem Yasar
August 18, 2022
2 min read
PowerToys is getting a new tool, PowerOCR
  • A new useful tool is being added to Microsoft PowerToys. PowerOCR is a minimal optical character recognition (OCR) utility for Windows.
  • PowerOCR is being developed by Joseph Finney who opened the pull request to announce the PowerOCR he is creating.
  • PowerOCR is based on Text Grab, an app already published by Joseph Finney, that uses Microsoft’s Windows.Media.Ocr API.

Microsoft PowerToys is getting a new tool that can simplify extracting text from an image. The new tool, PowerOCR, is being developed by Joseph Finney, the developer who opened the pull request to announce the PowerOCR he is creating. PowerOCR is based on Text Grab, an app already published by Joseph Finney. PowerToys also announced the Screen Ruler component recently which aims to simplify the process to find out the exact size of the elements on the screen.

Optical character recognition

To copy the text, Finney is using Microsoft’s Windows.Media.Ocr API, allowing developers to benefit from optical character recognition functionality. With the help of other developers, PowerOCR’s core functionality seems completed. Thus it may be released within the next few months.

According to Text Grab’s GitHub page, there are multiple modes. The first mode allows users to select a region of the screen and the text will be copied to the clipboard.

Select text from a region

Another use case requires clicking on words to attempt copying them. Windows 10 OCR API draws a box around each recognized mode, enabling this mode to work properly. If the user clicks on a region that has no text in it, the Text Grab window stays active. To exit the application, press the escape key, right-click and choose cancel, or Alt+F4.

Grab Frame

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Erdem Yasar

Erdem Yasar is a news editor at Cloud7 News. Erdem started his career by writing video game reviews in 2007 for PC World magazine while he was studying computer engineering. In the following years, he focused on software development with various programming languages. After his graduation, he continued to work as an editor for several major tech-related websites and magazines. During the 2010s, Erdem Yasar shifted his focus to cloud computing, hosting, and data centers as they were becoming more popular topics in the tech industry. Erdem Yasar also worked with various industry-leading tech companies as a content creator by writing blog posts and other articles. Prior to his role at Cloud7 News, Erdem was the managing editor of T3 Magazine.

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