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TheJoeFin / Text-Grab

Use OCR in Windows quickly and easily with Text Grab. With optional background process and notifications.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/text-grab/9mznkqj7sl0b?cid=TextGrabGitHub
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Adding settings for OCR engine and language on the Edit Text Window #392

Open vivadavid opened 9 months ago

vivadavid commented 9 months ago

Hi, Joe,

I hope I'm not bothering you too much with all my threads. I use Text Grab a lot and I keep thinking about ways to make it even better. Of course I understand that your time is limited and that you make think differently about the issues.

The scenario is that you are in the Edit Text Window and you want to perform OCR on a image or set of images either by dragging a file or by using the Extract Text from Images in Folder tool.

I'm presuming that the OCR will be using the same engine and language as displayed on the toolbar when you run Fullscreen Grab. The problem is that you'd need to run Fullscreen Grab to check if those settings are fine or if you want to make a change. Therefore I thought it'd be a good idea if you could add the OCR engine and language settings on the Bottom Bar, somewhere between the magnifying glass and the line number.

This way, it'd be much easier to switch from one language or engine to another depending on the images you're sending for OCR.

Adding settings for OCR engine and language on the Edit Text Window

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TheJoeFin commented 9 months ago

Issues here are not a bother! I enjoy working on Text Grab and going through issues like this is the best way to do it.

As for the Language change request. I am working on adding a language picker to the Edit Text Window because of the "OCR All Images in a Folder" option needs one. So maybe that will be used for both.

vivadavid commented 9 months ago

Excellent: thanks!