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Microsoft’s new PowerToys OCR tool will make copying text from images possible

Sonia Reed
Sonia Reed August 21, 2022
Updated 2022/10/06 at 2:29 PM
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In context: Apple introduced Live Text with the release of iOS 15 and macOS Monterey. It allows users to copy text from any image and paste it into a document or message. While not entirely baked in the operating system, Windows users should be getting a similar feature in their PowerToys toolbox called PowerOCR.

The latest addition to Microsoft’s PowerToys suite is a tool called PowerOCR. Created by Windows app developer Joseph Finney, the feature allows users to pull text from images using OCR (optical character recognition). It is not exactly unchartered waters as OCR has existed for decades, but until now there was no hint of such a functionality getting added at the OS level in Windows. Microsoft does offer OCR in OneNote though, which is free to download.

Similar optical character recognition was made available on the latest iterations of macOS and iOS Live Text, while Windows users have had to make do with third-party software such as Text Grab, on which PowerOCR is based.

Finney announced the tool on July 4 through a Github pull request. He explained that OCR is performed “by selecting a rectangular region, clicking a word, or right-clicking an image file and selecting PowerOCR.”

PowerOCR is still in development with no set release date, and it is one of two new tools to be added to Microsoft PowerToys — Screen Ruler was also announced recently. Finney is posting his progress on Github, and with most of the core functionality already in place (thanks to Text Grab), we should see a release within the next few months.

Microsoft PowerToys is a suite of tools designed for power users to streamline their Windows experience and increase productivity. It already boasts a robust toolkit that includes a Color Picker and Image Resizer. Color Picker enables users to extract a color code from anywhere on the screen, while Image Resizer allows resizing of multiple images simultaneously.

The upcoming Screen Ruler will feature four measuring modes, letting users measure things like rectangular areas and distance between objects in pixels.

Unlike Live Text, which is native to macOS and iOS, PowerToys is purposely not part of Windows and needs to be installed separately. It is an open-source project available for free from the Microsoft Store. You can grab PowerToys from our download section, and it is compatible with Windows 10 and Windows 11.

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