Re: [Update] Text Grab 4.14.2

On 26/06/23 09:58 AM, p-0 0-h the cat (coder) wrote:
> On 23/06/2026 13:03, John C. wrote:
>>> I use ABBVY Screenshot Reader. It was a giveaway probably still
>>> available and of course you could xxx it. It's got a way better offline
>>> OCR engine than anything else I have encountered. Multi language. So if
>>> you can find the giveaway.
> 
>> Long ago (around 2014 or '15), I ratholed the "ABBYY Screenshot Reader
>> bonus.exe" download. I don't know if it's a setup file or a portable
>> application or if it requires a password though.
> 
> 
> "ABBYY Screenshot Reader bonus.exe" was a Christmas giveaway. It must be
> the one I'm using as I have no other version archived CRC32 28AA5F18 and
> it has a Digital Signature. I don't think it has a password. There's
> something which says Register but I cannot find details. It's unlikely
> as I archive everything. It was Christmas 2011 so Windows 7, so I must
> have reinstalled on Windows 10 and upgraded to Windows 11 so if there
> was a password I must have extracted it by waterboarding Shit the cat,
> obviously a possibility, so I inquired and was met with a wall of
> emotional blackmail. I think he was bluffing though, his nose was
> twitching, dead giveaway. It's an install Product Version 9.010.48359811

The download I have has the following (I used MultiHasher
-https://www.abelhadigital.com/multihasher/- to obtain these values):

CRC32: 28AA5F18
MD5: 81ECEDEA15D22E32E71F81CFDC1CF9C9
RIPEMD-160: 4DBF53E164845C5D0997FB97DD80B8F80582DEED
SHA-1: E26BA5C9B338BDCD25C3FCE8D81BE10DEADF4EA9
SHA-256: 7C6B4D63B1434B1C524E1061CEDF9890B811ED3CE241AB307993B94707D968CD
SHA-384:
D5FDA0547B66E192CF871F019D5D4885F6EB3B9D8DB3A712F844302A938F91088A128A03ED5A66019FC21BBAB5C29904
SHA-512:
5350FBB882CAF41AAD619107E35CEDF6191261D935F49B6C0F93F9511488205A7909F215D2DA836A5FBF0927B17C9ECB10D73D612318BCC3EC17B494F24D1F47

>>> Going back to ShareX what I learnt was if you are having problems blow
>>> up the screengrab in Irfanview and screegrab that in ABBVY Screenshot
>>> Reader, I found x2 works jolly well usually, as good as ShareX without
>>> the online.
>> Agree, I've been doing this for years in order to get better OCR results.
>>
>> The main reason I'd use Text Grab would be to get the text from alert
>> and error windows that don't allow copying.
>>
>> For OCRing large documents that aren't of a private nature, I just use
>> Google Keep. I find that it's "Grab Text" feature is very accurate.
>>
>> I really miss ABBYY Finereader 4.0, which (I'm sure you know) was a
>> giveaway. I was unable to reinstall it after putting W10 Pro on this
>> computer.
> 
> Yes, I never solved that one either. I tried everything I could think of
> but nada, nobbled.

Those damned Ruskies.  80)>

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