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Downloads:

4,039

Downloads of v 4.5.1:

388

Last Update:

03 Sep 2024

Package Maintainer(s):

Software Author(s):

  • Joseph Finney

Tags:

text-grab textgrab ocr wpf screen capture portable foss embedded

Text-Grab

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4.5.1 | Updated: 03 Sep 2024

Downloads:

4,039

Downloads of v 4.5.1:

388

Maintainer(s):

Software Author(s):

  • Joseph Finney

Text-Grab 4.5.1

Legal Disclaimer: Neither this package nor Chocolatey Software, Inc. are affiliated with or endorsed by Joseph Finney. The inclusion of Joseph Finney trademark(s), if any, upon this webpage is solely to identify Joseph Finney goods or services and not for commercial purposes.

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All Checks are Passing

3 Passing Tests


Validation Testing Passed


Verification Testing Passed

Details

Scan Testing Successful:

No detections found in any package files

Details
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Deployment Method: Individual Install, Upgrade, & Uninstall

To install Text-Grab, run the following command from the command line or from PowerShell:

>

To upgrade Text-Grab, run the following command from the command line or from PowerShell:

>

To uninstall Text-Grab, run the following command from the command line or from PowerShell:

>

Deployment Method:

NOTE

This applies to both open source and commercial editions of Chocolatey.

1. Enter Your Internal Repository Url

(this should look similar to https://community.chocolatey.org/api/v2/)


2. Setup Your Environment

1. Ensure you are set for organizational deployment

Please see the organizational deployment guide

2. Get the package into your environment

  • Open Source or Commercial:
    • Proxy Repository - Create a proxy nuget repository on Nexus, Artifactory Pro, or a proxy Chocolatey repository on ProGet. Point your upstream to https://community.chocolatey.org/api/v2/. Packages cache on first access automatically. Make sure your choco clients are using your proxy repository as a source and NOT the default community repository. See source command for more information.
    • You can also just download the package and push it to a repository Download

3. Copy Your Script

choco upgrade text-grab -y --source="'INTERNAL REPO URL'" [other options]

See options you can pass to upgrade.

See best practices for scripting.

Add this to a PowerShell script or use a Batch script with tools and in places where you are calling directly to Chocolatey. If you are integrating, keep in mind enhanced exit codes.

If you do use a PowerShell script, use the following to ensure bad exit codes are shown as failures:


choco upgrade text-grab -y --source="'INTERNAL REPO URL'" 
$exitCode = $LASTEXITCODE

Write-Verbose "Exit code was $exitCode"
$validExitCodes = @(0, 1605, 1614, 1641, 3010)
if ($validExitCodes -contains $exitCode) {
  Exit 0
}

Exit $exitCode

- name: Install text-grab
  win_chocolatey:
    name: text-grab
    version: '4.5.1'
    source: INTERNAL REPO URL
    state: present

See docs at https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/win_chocolatey_module.html.


chocolatey_package 'text-grab' do
  action    :install
  source   'INTERNAL REPO URL'
  version  '4.5.1'
end

See docs at https://docs.chef.io/resource_chocolatey_package.html.


cChocoPackageInstaller text-grab
{
    Name     = "text-grab"
    Version  = "4.5.1"
    Source   = "INTERNAL REPO URL"
}

Requires cChoco DSC Resource. See docs at https://github.com/chocolatey/cChoco.


package { 'text-grab':
  ensure   => '4.5.1',
  provider => 'chocolatey',
  source   => 'INTERNAL REPO URL',
}

Requires Puppet Chocolatey Provider module. See docs at https://forge.puppet.com/puppetlabs/chocolatey.


4. If applicable - Chocolatey configuration/installation

See infrastructure management matrix for Chocolatey configuration elements and examples.

Package Approved

This package was approved as a trusted package on 05 Oct 2024.

Description

This is a minimal optical character recognition (OCR) utility for Windows 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.

Full Screen Example

Text Grab is designed to have multiple modes, from minimal to fully featured; all focused on productivity. By using Windows 10’s OCR capabilities Text Grab can launch quickly without needing to run in the background. Pinning Text Grab to the Taskbar enables launching via keyboard shortcut. Now with version 2.4 when the background process is enabled Text Grab can be activated from anywhere using global hotkeys. The full-screen mode is designed to be used hundreds of times a day. Reducing clicks and menus means saving time, which is the primary focus of Text Grab. The Grab Frame tool can be positioned on top of any text content for quick OCR any time. When it comes to manipulating the text you've copied the Edit Text Window offers a wide range of tools to speed up common tasks and take the raw text into clean usable content.


legal\LICENSE.txt
From:  https://github.com/TheJoeFin/Text-Grab/blob/main/LICENSE
==============================================
MIT License

Copyright (c) 2020 Joseph Finney

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
SOFTWARE.
legal\VERIFICATION.md
# VERIFICATION
Verification is intended to assist the Chocolatey moderators and community in verifying that this package's contents are trustworthy.

## Download
The latest version the the self-contained, zipped files can be downloaded from 
the official GitHub page:
- https://github.com/TheJoeFin/Text-Grab/releases/latest

or directly:
- Version: 4.5.1
- URL: https://github.com/TheJoeFin/Text-Grab/releases/download/v4.5.1/Text-Grab-Self-Contained-2024-08-28.zip
- SHA256: CFF258B46207DFB9933724259DEFDC86F03CEF869BE8F580DDEFEDDEE42609E7

## Verify
You can use one of the following methods to obtain the checksum:
1. Use powershell function 'Get-Filehash'
2. Use chocolatey utility 'checksum.exe'


## License
File 'LICENSE.txt' is obtained from:
- https://github.com/TheJoeFin/Text-Grab/blob/main/LICENSE
tools\chocolateyinstall.ps1
$ErrorActionPreference = 'Stop'

$toolsDir = "$(Split-Path -parent $MyInvocation.MyCommand.Definition)"
$FolderOfPackage = Split-Path -Parent $toolsDir

# Remove previous versions
$Previous = Get-ChildItem $FolderOfPackage -filter "$env:ChocolateyPackageName*" | Where-Object { $_.PSIsContainer }
if ($Previous) {
   $Previous | ForEach-Object { Remove-Item $_.FullName -Recurse -Force }
}

$ZipFile = 'Text-Grab-Self-Contained-2024-08-28.zip'

$UnZipArgs = @{
   packageName    = $env:ChocolateyPackageName
   FileFullPath   = Join-Path $toolsDir $ZipFile
   Destination    = Join-Path $FolderOfPackage "$($env:ChocolateyPackageName)_v$env:ChocolateyPackageVersion"
}
Get-ChocolateyUnzip @UnZipArgs

Remove-Item (Join-Path $toolsDir $ZipFile) -Force 

$ShortcutArgs = @{
   ShortcutFilePath = Join-Path $env:ProgramData '\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Text-Grab.lnk'
   TargetPath       = (Get-ChildItem $UnZipArgs.Destination -filter *.exe -Recurse).fullname
}
Install-ChocolateyShortcut @ShortcutArgs
tools\chocolateyuninstall.ps1
$StartMenuFolder = Join-Path $env:ProgramData 'Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu'

$StartShortcuts = gci $StartMenuFolder -Filter 'Text-Grab.lnk' -Recurse

Foreach ($Shortcut in $StartShortcuts) {
   Remove-Item $Shortcut.fullname -Force
}
tools\Text-Grab-Self-Contained-2024-08-28.zip
md5: E30CF81DC3B8C072F0D69E7BE326C3E5 | sha1: 4FA0C10275120BA88B58D12C559A2DCA5B527C7E | sha256: CFF258B46207DFB9933724259DEFDC86F03CEF869BE8F580DDEFEDDEE42609E7 | sha512: 394BCA27F7D4BEED1FC5FDB76F8EA5FE0808D24DBC4C42CCDB07BF36802206B66F6D3C07FB7D21746D7CB70C785C939FEE0BA455D7D40876150B24EC4EB6A5A9

Log in or click on link to see number of positives.

In cases where actual malware is found, the packages are subject to removal. Software sometimes has false positives. Moderators do not necessarily validate the safety of the underlying software, only that a package retrieves software from the official distribution point and/or validate embedded software against official distribution point (where distribution rights allow redistribution).

Chocolatey Pro provides runtime protection from possible malware.

Add to Builder Version Downloads Last Updated Status
Text-Grab 4.5.0 430 Friday, June 21, 2024 Approved
Text-Grab 4.4.2 344 Wednesday, May 8, 2024 Approved
Text-Grab 4.4.1 103 Tuesday, April 23, 2024 Approved
Text-Grab 4.4.0 224 Wednesday, March 13, 2024 Approved
Text-Grab 4.3.1 318 Tuesday, January 9, 2024 Approved
Text-Grab 4.3.0 139 Monday, December 18, 2023 Approved
Text-Grab 4.2.0 333 Monday, November 13, 2023 Approved
Text-Grab 4.1.4 79 Saturday, October 28, 2023 Approved
Text-Grab 4.1.3 874 Tuesday, September 26, 2023 Approved
Text-Grab 4.1.0 228 Saturday, August 5, 2023 Approved
Text-Grab 4.0.1 302 Wednesday, May 31, 2023 Approved
Text-Grab 4.0.0 121 Sunday, May 14, 2023 Approved
Text-Grab 3.2.0 156 Saturday, February 18, 2023 Approved

This package has no dependencies.

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