Updated packages and fixed an issue with the Tesseract setting not saving

Fix some issues with the new settings pages:

• When packaged, copy and migrate settings on upgrade
• Fixed some settings not getting set
• Fixed manual set of Tesseract Path not saving

March 2024

• Redesigned Settings with many improvements
  • Tabbed pages make for easier navigation
  • Settings saved automatically
  • Better language management
• Better Tesseract support
  • More descriptive of all languages

• Edit Text Window improvements
  • Duplicate line with ctrl + d
  • Add line above current line with ctrl + enter
• Bug fixes

Bug fixes

• Set Tesseract text encoding to UTF8
• After a Full Screen Grab "Try Insert" did not insert
• First Run was not setting some settings correctly

December 2023

• Fullscreen Grab top bar now is more clear what mode will be executed
• Using WPFUI Symbols instead of MDL2
• Record any available shortcut key combination
  • Enables more shortcuts like:
  • Edit last grab
  • Open last open Edit Text Window
  • Grab previous region

• Improve Tesseract support
  • Now all OCR languages, (Windows + Tesseract) show up in the language picker side by side
  • Better language support
  • Better support for any location
  • winget for install commands in settings
• Full Screen Grab now only shows toolbars when mouse is over that screen
• Better QR Code maker tools
  • Generate SVGs
  • Change text and QR Code will update
  • Set error correction level
• Update packages as always

Bug fixes around file access related to the history service.

Mainly bug fixes around History files for the packaged version of Text Grab. No new feature changes.

History Service

• Open recently closed Edit Text Windows
• Open recently closed Grab Frames
• Open Fullscreen Grabs into Grab Frames for refinement
• Grab last region of the screen

New CLI Options

• New flag --windowless will do OCR on files or open .txt files and put the content directly into the clipboard
• This flag also suppresses the "About Text Grab" window which appears at first launch

Improved Tesseract Support

• Get list of Tesseract Languages for FSG language picker
• Make sure EXE can be found before allowing feature to be enabled
• Fail more gracefully when EXE cannot be found

Grab Frame improvements

• Copy text context option
• Open Recent Grab Frames option

Quick Simple Lookup Improvements

• Button to use in touch scenarios where ENTER is not convenient

Edit Text Window

• Open recent texts content dropdown
• Open recent Grabs dropdown
• Grab previous region option
• Edit Last Grab option

QR Code improvements

• Drag code out of window to wherever you need it
• Copy code image directly to clipboard
• More descriptive names by default

What's Changed

• Bug Fixes
• [ImgBot] Optimize images by @imgbot in https://github.com/TheJoeFin/Text-Grab/pull/293
• Bump WPF-UI from 3.0.0-preview.1 to 3.0.0-preview.2 by @dependabot in https://github.com/TheJoeFin/Text-Grab/pull/294
• Bump CliWrap from 3.6.0 to 3.6.1 by @dependabot in https://github.com/TheJoeFin/Text-Grab/pull/295

Full Changelog: https://github.com/TheJoeFin/Text-Grab/compare/v4.0.0...v4.0.1

This is a preview, please tell me of any issues or bugs you have!

⚠️NEW ICON ALERT⚠️

NEW FLUENT UI!!

• LIGHT THEME!!
• Every mode is changed
• Rounded corners
• Updated screenshots

More QR Codes

• Make QR Codes
• Read codes whenever doing OCR
• Don't correct codes

Use Tesseract

• When installed enable using Tesseract
• Fixed a few initial issues with links, thanks @vivadavid

Thanks, lets connect!

Hope you are enjoying Text Grab! I always love to hear from users about what works and what doesn't

https://mastodon.social/@TheJoeFin
[email protected]

This is a preview, please tell me of any issues or bugs you have!

⚠️NEW ICON ALERT⚠️

NEW FLUENT UI!!

• LIGHT THEME!!
• Every mode is changed
• Rounded corners

More QR Codes

• Make QR Codes
• Read codes whenever doing OCR
• Don't correct codes

Use Tesseract

• When installed enable using Tesseract
• Fixed a few initial issues with links, thanks @vivadavid

Thanks, lets connect!

Hope you are enjoying Text Grab! I always love to hear from users about what works and what doesn't

https://mastodon.social/@TheJoeFin
[email protected]

This is a preview, please tell me of any issues or bugs you have!

⚠️NEW ICON ALERT⚠️

NEW FLUENT UI!!

• LIGHT THEME!!
• Every mode is changed
• Rounded corners

More QR Codes

• Make QR Codes
• Read codes whenever doing OCR
• Don't correct codes

Use Tesseract

• When installed enable using Tesseract

Thanks, lets connect!

Hope you are enjoying Text Grab! I always love to hear from users about what works and what doesn't

https://mastodon.social/@TheJoeFin
[email protected]

Main New Feature

Auto-Paste

• Inspired by the new "Paste as Plain Text" PowerToy
• In different modes
  • Full Screen Grab
  • Edit Text Window
  • Quick Simple Lookup
• Turn on in settings
• Replaces previous "Try Insert" behavior

Other features

Edit Text Window

• New "Launch URL" function
  • Identify a URL
  • Enables when URL is valid
• New "Limit each line" capability under "Add, Remove, Limit" menu item

Quick Simple Lookup

• Can Auto-Paste result
• Saving behavior works more consistently

Grab Frame

• Match count now counts repeats within a line

General

• Will decode base64 encoded image when pasting from Teams
• Reorganized code with CodeMaid (https://www.codemaid.net/)
• More tests

Thanks, lets connect!

Hope you are enjoying Text Grab! I always love to hear from users about what works and what doesn't

• https://mastodon.social/@TheJoeFin
• [email protected]

Text Grab 3.2 Introduces several major features, and many improvements throughout the application.

Grab Frame

• Add, Remove, Resize, and Move lines
• More advanced searching capabilities
• A menu for additional options and behavior adjustments

Edit Text Window

• Fully customizable bottom bar

Full-Screen Grab

• Table recognition is an option

Quick Simple Lookup

• Hold CTRL+ALT to launch Right-side value if it is a valid URI

This 2nd preview is mostly bug fixes and improvements.

Grab Frame:

• Make OCR button clearer when not using the auto OCR option
• Fixed issue with. Break into words not respecting new lines.
• Improve the shortcut keys to not be activated when searching.
• Add the context menu to the search bar.

Full Screen Grab

• Use a DPI aware package to place new Windows

This is a preview Release for the more advance Grab Frame functionality and some additional features throughout. This preview is intended to get feedback from contributors who requested specific behavior or noted bugs.

Specifically:
#226
#228

Edit Text Window

• Improve the Find and Replace dialog
  • Fix Match Exactly option
• Fix a bug right-clicking an empty
• Ctrl + # activates bottom bar buttons

Grab Frame

• If the ETW is closed, uncheck the box

Update packages

This release has a number of bug fixes and feature enhancements.

General:

• Now with more unit testing!
• Option to fix language to basic Latin characters
• Better overall code layout and organization

Grab Frame

• Lines now get background from what is behind them
• Better error correction on each line
• Table recognition has been improved

Edit Text Window

• Batch OCR of folder performance improved with parallelization
• Batch OCR now asks for recursive option
• Fixed bug caused by closing child Grab Frame

Quick Simple Lookup

• Added Text Grab setting button
• Add Item when inserting a tab
• Jump to end of list when adding new items

What's Changed

• Update non-space joining language detection logic by @gexgd0419 in https://github.com/TheJoeFin/Text-Grab/pull/197
• New Mode: Quick simple lookup window in https://github.com/TheJoeFin/Text-Grab/pull/193
  
• Grab Frame show by lines and CJK improvements in https://github.com/TheJoeFin/Text-Grab/pull/201
• Read QR and barcodes in https://github.com/TheJoeFin/Text-Grab/pull/205
• Update docs and screenshots in https://github.com/TheJoeFin/Text-Grab/pull/206
• Remember last used Language and language picker on Grab Frame

New Contributors

• @gexgd0419 made their first contribution in https://github.com/TheJoeFin/Text-Grab/pull/197

Full Changelog: https://github.com/TheJoeFin/Text-Grab/compare/v2.7.1...v3.0