Tutorial Windows Supported OCR Tool - Microsoft PowerToys

[dazedanon]

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This is a tutorial aimed at people who would like a tool similar to Google Lens working on Windows with less hassle. It allows you to use a Windows shortcut to scan for any text on the screen and copy that to the clipboard. It's very useful for grabbing Japanese text that isn't translated and cant be highlighted such as pictures or menu items in games.

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The tool we are interested in here is Text Extractor. Here are the steps you can take to install the Japanese language. (Note, there are a variety of

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1. Have Powertoys installed.
2. Open Powershell in Administrator Mode. Search > "Powershell" > Run as Admin
3. Enter

Get-WindowsCapability -Online | Where-Object { $_.Name -Like 'Language.OCR*ja-JP' }

4. Restart PowerToys and check the dropdown in Text Extractor.

Then you can use Windows Key + Shift + T to use it like snipping tool. Right click to select the language. After you select some text it will be copied by your clipboard.

 

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[asnaz]

Waov it works like a charm... I tried lots of different OCR programs to hook complex text from mangas where the text in them is colored and written with weird font. So far the best one ı've found was shareX following with poricom and capture2text but this one is way more accurate than above all. Thanks for the share!