This is a minimal optical character recognition (OCR) utility for Win 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. 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.
Text Grab has Four Modes :
1. Full-Screen Mode (basis of Text Extractor)
2. Grab Frame Mode
3. Edit Text Window
4. Quick Simple Lookup
Changelog: v4.15 August 1 2026
– Smart patterns: Identify patterns in the text such as phone numbers, quantities, emails, etc.
– Text to Speech: Speak the text you capture.
– Local AI Description: Use local on device models to do a text description of the selected area.
– Improved Capture on HDR: An option to use modern screen capture APIs will improve the condition where OCR is poor quality due to HDR settings.
– Settings design polish: More modern controls and better organized.
– Bug Fixes
Requirements:
- Windows 10 or later — required for all features using the Windows OCR API.
- Windows 11 on a Copilot+ PC (Microsoft Store install) — required for Windows AI features, which use the on-device Neural Processing Unit for higher-accuracy recognition.
