Text-Grab

Test out the new stuff in 3.0

New Mode!! Quick Simple Lookup.
Reading QR Codes.
Better CJK language support.
Remember last language.
Grab Frame improvements.

This is a pre-release. Please report any bugs so they can be fixed ASAP.

• Compressed images
• Handled Clipboard access better

Full Screen Grab

• Small selections are less likely to crash
• Catch errors with screen selection better

Edit Text Window

• CLI Improvements
• Improved OCR of every image in a directory

Grab Frame

• Better rescan when moving grab Frame
• Search for words on Grab Frame is faster and more reliable
• Scrolling to change window size with holding shift is improved

Improvements all around.

• Images are scaled to an ideal line height
• CJK languages no longer have unneeded spaces

Edit Text Window

• Read a directory full of images
• Drop images onto the text window
• Adding text does not overwrite selection

Fullscreen Grab

• Toolbar at the top of the window
  • Change language
  • Toggle single line
  • Place Grab Frame
  • Open Edit Text Window
  • Open Settings

Grab Frame

• Edit mode by default
• Fix display scaling issue

This release includes a self-contained zip folder which can be used to run Text Grab without needing to install anything else.

What's Changed

• More grab frame edit options by @TheJoeFin in https://github.com/TheJoeFin/Text-Grab/pull/164
• Settings window options and validation by @TheJoeFin in https://github.com/TheJoeFin/Text-Grab/pull/166
• Add "Add or remove window" by @TheJoeFin in https://github.com/TheJoeFin/Text-Grab/pull/168

Full Changelog: https://github.com/TheJoeFin/Text-Grab/compare/v2.5.1...v2.6.0

New features

• Full Screen Grab
  • More right click options
  • Can place Grab Frame
  • Option to make result single line
• Grab Frame
  • Freeze mode
  • Table mode
  • Edit mode
  • Zoom window with scroll wheel
  • Display images dropped on Grab Frame
• Application settings
  • Option to launch at login
  • Experimental option to try to insert by simulating key presses

Bug Fixes

• Full Screen region selection could go outside of window
• Extra spaces added to CJK languages (should be improved)

Added:
Grab Frame

• Drag and Drop image support
• Freeze mode
• Correction Mode

Full Screen Grab

• Place Grab Frame

Major features and changes in this version are:

• Option to startup Text Grab when the user logs in
• Option to try to insert text by simulating key presses

Fixed the bug where the Edit Text Window would close in some scenarios when using a Full-Screen Grab.

Version 2.4 brings many community requested improvements, as well as other tools to help people wrangle text in their daily workflows.

• Run in the background
• Global hotkeys
• Fullscreen grab on delay
• Adding and removing text for every line
• List folders and files in a directory
• Watch keyboard for changes

This update introduces to major new features but does improve on every aspect of Text Grab. Check out Milestone 2.3 for details of fixed issues and improvements.

The EXE here will require .NET 5 Runtime to be installed.

This is a preview release of Text Grab on .NET 5, and several other improvements and bug fixes throughout.