# TheJoeFin/Text-Grab

Use OCR in Windows quickly and easily with Text Grab. With optional background process and notifications.

Repository: https://github.com/TheJoeFin/Text-Grab
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/text-grab
Homepage: https://textgrab.net/
Language: C#
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: ocr, wpf, window-10, msix, dotnet, windows, windows-11, local-ai
Last push: 2026-08-25T03:21:12+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 94/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 83, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2101, "days_push": 8, "days_rel": 32, "gap_med": 40, "n_releases_24m": 16}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 4978, forks 328 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:04.114456+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: ocr, gui, developer-tools
- domain: developer-tools, windows, image-processing
- platform: windows, dotnet
- tags: ocr, clipboard, screen-capture, wpf, local-ai, text-extraction, utility

## Member repositories
- TheJoeFin/Text-Grab (main) score 94

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:04.114456+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:17:43.240021+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/TheJoeFin/Text-Grab (fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:04.114456+00:00, sha 071e2a81753e)
  - homepage: https://textgrab.net/ (fetched 2026-08-29T08:58:54.555041+00:00, sha 74a9d0a87aba)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.