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Text Grab Changelog

What's new in Text Grab 4.4.2

May 3, 2024
  • Updated packages and fixed an issue with the Tesseract setting not saving

New in Text Grab 4.4.1 (Apr 19, 2024)

  • 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

New in Text Grab 4.4.0 (Mar 9, 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

New in Text Grab 4.3.1 (Jan 7, 2024)

  • 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

New in Text Grab 4.3.0 (Dec 25, 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

New in Text Grab 4.2.0 (Nov 11, 2023)

  • 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

New in Text Grab 4.1.4.0 (Oct 22, 2023)

  • Bug fixes around file access related to the history service.

New in Text Grab 4.1.3.0 (Sep 19, 2023)

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

New in Text Grab 4.1 (Jul 23, 2023)

  • 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

New in Text Grab 4.0.1 (May 17, 2023)

  • Bug Fixes
  • [ImgBot] Optimize images by @imgbot in #293
  • Bump WPF-UI from 3.0.0-preview.1 to 3.0.0-preview.2 by @dependabot in #294
  • Bump CliWrap from 3.6.0 to 3.6.1 by @dependabot in #295

New in Text Grab 4.0.0 (May 3, 2023)

  • 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

New in Text Grab 4.0.0 Preview 2 (May 1, 2023)

  • 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

New in Text Grab 3.3 (Mar 11, 2023)

  • 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

New in Text Grab 3.2 (Jan 23, 2023)

  • 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

New in Text Grab 3.2.0 Preview 2 (Jan 15, 2023)

  • 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

New in Text Grab 3.2.0 Preview 1 (Jan 12, 2023)

  • 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:
  • Option for Grab Frame to recognize content on the button click #226
  • Multiple Monitor text extraction #228

New in Text Grab 3.1.1 (Jan 3, 2023)

  • 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

New in Text Grab 3.1 (Dec 20, 2022)

  • 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

New in Text Grab 3.0 (Oct 27, 2022)

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

New in Text Grab 3.0 Pre-release (Oct 24, 2022)

  • Test out the new stuff in 3.0
  • New Mode!! Quick Simple Lookup.
  • Reading QR Codes.
  • Better CJK language support.
  • Remember last language.
  • Grab Frame improvements.

New in Text Grab 2.7.1.0 (Oct 2, 2022)

  • Compressed images
  • Handled Clipboard access better
  • Full Screen Grab:
  • Small selections are less likely to crash
  • Catch errors with screen selection better
  • Edit Text Window:
  • CLI Improvements
  • Improved OCR of every image in a directory
  • Grab Frame:
  • Better rescan when moving grab Frame
  • Search for words on Grab Frame is faster and more reliable
  • Scrolling to change window size with holding shift is improved

New in Text Grab 2.7.0.0 (Aug 4, 2022)

  • Improvements all around:
  • Images are scaled to an ideal line height
  • CJK languages no longer have unneeded spaces
  • Edit Tet Window:
  • Read a directory full of images
  • Drop images onto the tet window
  • Adding tet does not overwrite selection
  • Fullscreen Grab:
  • Toolbar at the top of the window
  • Change language
  • Toggle single line
  • Place Grab Frame
  • Open Edit Tet Window
  • Open Settings
  • Grab Frame:
  • Edit mode by default
  • Fi display scaling issue

New in Text Grab 2.6.0.0 (Jun 10, 2022)

  • More grab frame edit options.
  • Settings window options and validation.
  • Add "Add or remove window".

New in Text Grab 2.5.0.0 Beta 2 (Feb 28, 2022)

  • Added:
  • Grab Frame:
  • Drag and Drop image support
  • Freeze mode
  • Correction Mode
  • Full Screen Grab:
  • Place Grab Frame

New in Text Grab 2.4.0.0 (Nov 22, 2021)

  • Run in the background
  • Global hotkeys
  • Fullscreen grab on delay
  • Adding and removing text for every line
  • List folders and files in a directory
  • Watch keyboard for changes

New in Text Grab 2.3.0.0 (Sep 27, 2021)

  • Full Screen Grab is more accurate
  • Grab Frame better word selection experience
  • Edit Text Window has many new tools

New in Text Grab 2.2.0.0 (Aug 28, 2021)

  • Focus on the Edit Text window. Find and replace, open .txt files, and so much more!

New in Text Grab 2.1.0.0 (Jun 20, 2021)

  • Focus on the Edit Text window. This can now be set as the default launch and has many more options to manipulate text with many more planned

New in Text Grab 2.0.0.0 (May 21, 2021)

  • 2.0 Introduces the Grab Frame, a new way to capture, copy, and find text on screen.