Text Grab
Text Grab is a minimal optical character recognition (OCR) utility for Windows 10/11 which makes all visible text available to be copied.
Features
- OCR
- Works Offline
- Screenshot OCR
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Text Grab information
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Open Source (MIT) and Free product.Written in
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What is Text Grab?
Text Grab 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. 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.
Comments and Reviews
It works almost identically as other OCRs. Including DPscreenOCR and ABBYY Screenshot Reader. The floating window that never disappears irritates me.
Text Grab is a very actively developed program with many capabilities. If you are looking for complete page capture or table capture, or want to edit the text, this may be the program for you. I use NormCap to simply capture to clipboard, though it is a little heavier. Text Grab has a little learning curve.