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Text Extractor Problems With Addresses #34060

Open ddn2003 opened 3 months ago

ddn2003 commented 3 months ago

Microsoft PowerToys version

0.82.1

Utility with translation issue

TextExtractor

🌐 Language affected

English

❌ Actual phrase(s)

Phrase contains sensitive personal information. Can I email it you?

✔️ Expected phrase(s)

Phrase contains sensitive personal information. Can I email it you?

ℹ Why is the current translation wrong

The translation did not correctly translate my last name, and missed the first part of my postal code entirely. Additionally, I found the TextExtractor has problems differentiating a K and 1<

jaimecbernardo commented 3 months ago

Text Extractor OCR engine is a bit old, so this is expected. Have you tried using Windows 11 snipping tool "Text Actions" feature yet? That's our currently recommended workflow for getting text out of images, since it uses a newer engine. Does this help? /needinfo

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jonnafziger commented 3 weeks ago

@jaimecbernardo text extractor from powertoys is so much faster than the windows 11 snipping tool. a single shortcut to highlight the desired text instread of a snip, selecting extract text, waiting for analyze, and then select/copy what text is desired. Please update the engine on text extractor instead of obsoleting this extremely useful tool!