Text Grap

• Search the Quick Simple look up with Regex!

• Edit the image in a Grab Frame to improve OCR
  • Increase contrast
  • Invert colors
  • Change brightness

• Edit Text Window can have a language picker on the bottom bar

Brings in to major features

1. Searching history in the Quick Simple Lookup
   • Find and open previous Edit Text Windows or Grab Frames
   • Different items are signified by an icon on the left
   • Can be disabled for previous behavior

2. Post grab actions
- Can fix GUIDs
- Try to insert
- Trim lines
- Remove duplicate lines
- Default web search (configurable in Settings)

General

• Updated packages
• Bug fixes
• Code style

Edit Text Window

• Added web search options
• Added GUID/UUID fix functionality

Bug fixes

• Fix panning of selection in the Full-Screen Grab not respecting DPI, thanks @ZGGSONG for the PR
• Fix Grab Frame jumping when clicking on a Word Border
• Add more common letter number confusions, 5 / S, 8 / B
• Improve performance of "Delete All" and "Replace All" methods in Edit Text Windows Find/Replace Window

Grab Frame

• Added view options
  • Zoom on scroll
  • Scroll does nothing
  • Scroll resizes window (previous behavior)
• Added keyboard shortcut ctrl+G to "Grab"
• Added option to close frame on grab
• Added "Make single line" an option

Full Screen Grab

• Using DAPPLO now to get screen coordinates so it should be more accurate

General

• Replace Notify Icon with WPF-UI tray icon
• Remove WinForms dependency
• Update packages
• General bug fixes

As always thanks for using Text Grab! Please reach out to say hi and/or report issues/requests

Joe
www.JoeFinApps.com

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