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Microsoft Working on OCR Tool for PowerToys

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Users will be able to copy text from images

A new OCR tool is being developed for PowerToys
   A new OCR tool is being developed for PowerToys

Microsoft’s PowerToys is expanding with new capabilities, and most recently, the company has started the work on another tool to allow users to extract text from images.

The new OCR tool that will be part of PowerToys is currently in its early days, with the community explaining that in early July, the tool still required plenty of work.

As Neowin observed, the new OCR, which is documented on GitHub here, works in a pretty simple way. Users just need to select the text they want to extract from an image and then let PowerToys do its magic.

At first glance, it looks to work pretty well, but of course, it remains to be seen how it’ll handle other fonts or documents where the text isn’t necessarily as visible as in the demo – for instance, OCR apps are often struggling with scanned documents.

“This PR introduces a new PowerToy to perform OCR anywhere on screen by selecting a rectangular region, clicking a word, or right-clicking an image file and selecting PowerOCR. As of the first week in July, there is much more that needs to be done to make this PowerToy ready for prime time, but this is the MVP if anyone wanted to pull and build just this tool. Most of the code is copied from my repository Text Grab,” the latest update for the new PowerToy reads.

Of course, it’s too early to tell when the OCR app is supposed to go live, but if you want to help with its development, you know what you have to do.

In the meantime, there are plenty of other OCR solutions out there, so finding a temporary solution to extract text from images shouldn’t take too long (for instance, mobile devices themselves also support similar capabilities).


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