TheJoeFin/Text-Grab
Use OCR in Windows quickly and easily with Text Grab. With optional background process and notifications. observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
94/100
- Activity 99
- Release rhythm 83
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 40
- age_days: 2101
- days_rel: 32
- days_push: 8
- n_releases_24m: 16
Adoption not part of the score
4978 stars · 328 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
Text Grab is a Windows OCR utility that extracts text from anywhere on screen — screenshots, images, videos, PDFs, or app windows — entirely on-device with no cloud calls. It offers multiple modes including fullscreen region grab, a live overlay frame, an OCR cleanup editor, and a snippet lookup dictionary.
Use cases
- copy text from an image or screenshot to the clipboard
- extract text from a video or PDF where selection is impossible
- grab a single word from any window with a hotkey
- clean up raw OCR output with regex and find & replace
- run batch OCR on a folder of images
- keep a live OCR overlay over a changing window
- store and paste frequently used text snippets
When to choose
- you need fast, private, offline OCR on Windows 10/11
- you want a lightweight hotkey-driven text extraction workflow
- you need post-OCR editing like regex extraction or spreadsheet-style cleanup
When to avoid
- you need OCR on macOS or Linux
- you need server-side or batch OCR via an API in a non-Windows pipeline
- you need handwriting or complex layout recognition beyond Windows OCR capabilities
Facets
application · maturity active
ocr gui developer-tools developer-tools windows image-processing windows dotnet ocr clipboard screen-capture wpf local-ai text-extraction utility
2 sources
- readme: https://github.com/TheJoeFin/Text-Grab · fetched 2026-08-28 · 071e2a81753e
- homepage: https://textgrab.net/ · fetched 2026-08-29 · 74a9d0a87aba
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| TheJoeFin/Text-Grab | main | 94 |
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