Re: [Update] Text Grab 4.14.1

On Mon, 08 Jun 2026 04:23:13 -0500, "Allan Higdon"
<[email protected]> wrote:

>On Mon, 08 Jun 2026 04:09:31 -0500, wasbit <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On 07/06/2026 21:04, Allan Higdon wrote:
>>> On Sun, 07 Jun 2026 03:32:01 -0500, wasbit <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 07/06/2026 08:07, John C. wrote:
>>>>> On 26/06/06 08:24 AM, Allan Higdon wrote:
>>>>>> "This is a minimal optical character recognition (OCR) utility for
>>>>>> Windows 10/11 which makes all visible text available to be copied.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Too often text is trapped within images, videos, or within parts of
>>>>>> applications and cannot be selected.
>>>>>> Text Grab takes a screenshot, passes that image to the OCR engine, then
>>>>>> puts the text into the clipboard for use anywhere.
>>>>>> The OCR is done locally by Windows API (
>>>>>> https://learn.microsoft.com/en-
>>>>>> us/uwp/api/Windows.Media.Ocr ).
>>>>>> This enables Text Grab to have essentially no UI and not require a
>>>>>> constantly running background process.
>>>>>> Working with text can be much more than just copying text from images,
>>>>>> so Text Grab has a range of different modes to make working with text
>>>>>> fast and easy."
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Portable - Standalone File
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Home Page
>>>>>> https://textgrab.net/
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Release Notes
>>>>>> https://github.com/TheJoeFin/Text-Grab/releases/latest
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Portable Download
>>>>>> https://github.com/TheJoeFin/Text-Grab/releases/download/v4.14.1/Text-
>>>>>> Grab-Self-Contained-x64.zip
>>>>>
>>>>> "Get on Microsoft Store — $9.99"
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> It's available from the Release Notes link.
>>>> Requires Windows Desktop Runtime 10.0.8
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> I post the download for the standalone file, which is 408.50 MB.
>>> It worked for me without the Desktop Runtime.
>>
>> Thanks.
>> John et al are wary of direct download links.
>>
>>
>
>I started posting direct links for GitHub because John at al were unsure at times about which file was needed.

	It's almost impossible to find the download link unless you
allow very intrusive javascript. After all, Github is Microsoft. Not
trustworthy, though the program authors might be.
	So thanks for the links, they have helped me in the past.

	It's a pity github does not make checksums mandatory. The
downloads sometimes seem to be compiled "on demand" just before
dowloading. The date of the file never matches the date they say it
was released. And how do you know if a "special" build as not compiled
for a few people "of interest" if you have nothing to compare it to?
	I miss the days when people just left the files on FTP
servers, with a little file with the checksum next to them. Far safer.
	[]'s
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