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Subject: Re: OCR on Windows
From: Stan Brown
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Organization: Oak Road Systems
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2024 20:09 UTC
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From: the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm (Stan Brown)
Newsgroups: alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.comp.os.windows-10,comp.text.pdf
Subject: Re: OCR on Windows
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2024 13:09:41 -0700
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On Sun, 14 Jul 2024 09:25:09 +0200, Herbert Kleebauer wrote:
> On 14.07.2024 02:46, Bill Powell wrote:
>
> > I have a series of one-page PDFs that are really images and not text even
> > though they look like they're just a page of simple text in the same font.
> >
> > Is there a way to easily OCR a PDF to actual text on Windows for free?
>
> For only a few lines of text you can use the Snipping Tool: press
> <WIN><SHIFT>S and select the part of the screen with the text.
> When the Snipping Tool opens, select the OCR function.

What OCR function? I just get a menu at the top of the screen
consisting of five icons: Rectangular snip, Freeform snip, Window
snip, Fullscreen snip, Close snipping.

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From: the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm (Stan Brown)
Newsgroups: alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.comp.os.windows-10,comp.text.pdf
Subject: Re: OCR on Windows
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2024 13:11:02 -0700
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On Sun, 14 Jul 2024 06:54:16 -0400, knuttle wrote:
> I use Irfanveiw for all my image and OCR projects.
>
> You need Irfanview and the OCR plugin.
>
> Open the PDF file in Irfanvieiw, high lite the text and activate the
> OCR function.

I've been using Irfanview for years, but when I tried the OCR plugin
I found it did a significantly worse job than OneNote.

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From: the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm (Stan Brown)
Newsgroups: alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.comp.os.windows-10,comp.text.pdf
Subject: Re: OCR on Windows
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2024 13:19:13 -0700
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On Mon, 15 Jul 2024 10:10:05 +0200, Joerg Walther wrote:
>
> Enrico Papaloma wrote:
>
> >Download PDF-XChange Editor/Plus (32/64 Bit Version) (as ZIP File)
> >Download PDF-XChange Editor PORTABLE (32/64 Bit Version) (as ZIP File)
> >Download PDF-XChange Editor PORTABLE ohne OCR (32/64 Bit Version) (as ZIP File)
> >
> >It says "ohne OCR". What does "ohne" mean anyway?
>
> Ohne is German,meaning "without".

As in /Die Frau Ohne Schatten/ (The Woman without a Shadow), an
unjustly neglected opera by Richard Strauss.

I recognize several of the singers' names in this video, so it ought
to be a good performance, but I haven't listened to it because I have
one on CD:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFfc_rP9ROk

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Stan Brown, Tehachapi, California, USA https://BrownMath.com/
Shikata ga nai...

Subject: Re: OCR on Windows
From: Jørgen Nielsen
Newsgroups: alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.comp.os.windows-10, comp.text.pdf
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2024 20:49 UTC
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From: newsjn@outlook.dk (Jørgen Nielsen)
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Subject: Re: OCR on Windows
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mandag, 15-07-2024, Stan Brown skrev:
> On Sun, 14 Jul 2024 09:25:09 +0200, Herbert Kleebauer wrote:
>> On 14.07.2024 02:46, Bill Powell wrote:
>>
>>> I have a series of one-page PDFs that are really images and not text even
>>> though they look like they're just a page of simple text in the same font.
>>>
>>> Is there a way to easily OCR a PDF to actual text on Windows for free?
>>
>> For only a few lines of text you can use the Snipping Tool: press
>> <WIN><SHIFT>S and select the part of the screen with the text.
>> When the Snipping Tool opens, select the OCR function.
>
>
> What OCR function? I just get a menu at the top of the screen
> consisting of five icons: Rectangular snip, Freeform snip, Window
> snip, Fullscreen snip, Close snipping.
>
Select Rectangular snip, select the text, double click on Snipping
Tools, click on text in the menu, select the text and copy.

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Subject: Re: OCR on Windows
From: Herbert Kleebauer
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Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2024 21:01 UTC
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From: klee@unibwm.de (Herbert Kleebauer)
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Subject: Re: OCR on Windows
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On 15.07.2024 22:09, Stan Brown wrote:

>> For only a few lines of text you can use the Snipping Tool: press
>> <WIN><SHIFT>S and select the part of the screen with the text.
>> When the Snipping Tool opens, select the OCR function.
>
>
> What OCR function? I just get a menu at the top of the screen
> consisting of five icons: Rectangular snip, Freeform snip, Window
> snip, Fullscreen snip, Close snipping.

Maybe it is only available in Win11 but not in Win10.
I have version: Snipping Tool 11.2405.32.0

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/use-snipping-tool-to-capture-screenshots-00246869-1843-655f-f220-97299b865f6b#ID0EDD=Windows_11

|| Once you've captured a snip, select the Text Actions button to
|| activate the Optical Character Recognition (OCR) feature. This
|| allows you to extract text directly from your image. From here,
|| you have the option to either select and copy specific text, or
|| use the tools to Copy all text or to Quick redact. All text
|| recognition processes are performed locally on your

Subject: Re: OCR on Windows
From: Paul
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Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2024 05:18 UTC
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Subject: Re: OCR on Windows
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On 7/15/2024 5:01 PM, Herbert Kleebauer wrote:
> On 15.07.2024 22:09, Stan Brown wrote:
>
>>> For only a few lines of text you can use the Snipping Tool: press
>>> <WIN><SHIFT>S and select the part of the screen with the text.
>>> When the Snipping Tool opens, select the OCR function.
>>
>>
>> What OCR function? I just get a menu at the top of the screen
>> consisting of five icons: Rectangular snip, Freeform snip, Window
>> snip, Fullscreen snip, Close snipping.
>
>
> Maybe it is only available in Win11 but not in Win10.
> I have version: Snipping Tool 11.2405.32.0
>
> https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/use-snipping-tool-to-capture-screenshots-00246869-1843-655f-f220-97299b865f6b#ID0EDD=Windows_11
>
> || Once you've captured a snip, select the Text Actions button to
> || activate the Optical Character Recognition (OCR) feature. This
> || allows you to extract text directly from your image. From here,
> || you have the option to either select and copy specific text, or
> || use the tools to Copy all text or to Quick redact. All text
> || recognition processes are performed locally on your

This is what I'm seeing.

[Picture]

https://i.postimg.cc/BnZCqsSV/snippingtool-OCR-is-implicit.gif

You select "text actions" first.

The OCR conversion happens upon entry to the function,
with no request on your part.

The "Copy as Text" is presumably supposed to trigger "OCR was done"
in your brain ??? A violation of discover-ability. Or of some other
principle they might have taught in CS school.

Paul

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From: klee@unibwm.de (Herbert Kleebauer)
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Subject: Re: OCR on Windows
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On 16.07.2024 07:18, Paul wrote:

> The "Copy as Text" is presumably supposed to trigger "OCR was done"
> in your brain ??? A violation of discover-ability. Or of some other
> principle they might have taught in CS school.

I think it is a good idea to replace the keyboard sequence CTRL-A CTRL-C
by a simple mouse click. And there is also the button to remove email
addresses and phone numbers from t

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From: the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm (Stan Brown)
Newsgroups: alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.comp.os.windows-10,comp.text.pdf
Subject: Re: OCR on Windows
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On Mon, 15 Jul 2024 22:49:46 +0200, Jørgen Nielsen wrote:
>
> mandag, 15-07-2024, Stan Brown skrev:
> > On Sun, 14 Jul 2024 09:25:09 +0200, Herbert Kleebauer wrote:
> >> On 14.07.2024 02:46, Bill Powell wrote:
> >>
> >>> I have a series of one-page PDFs that are really images and not text even
> >>> though they look like they're just a page of simple text in the same font.
> >>>
> >>> Is there a way to easily OCR a PDF to actual text on Windows for free?
> >>
> >> For only a few lines of text you can use the Snipping Tool: press
> >> <WIN><SHIFT>S and select the part of the screen with the text.
> >> When the Snipping Tool opens, select the OCR function.
> >
> >
> > What OCR function? I just get a menu at the top of the screen
> > consisting of five icons: Rectangular snip, Freeform snip, Window
> > snip, Fullscreen snip, Close snipping.
> >
> Select Rectangular snip, select the text, double click on Snipping
> Tools, click on text in the menu, select the text and copy.

As soon as I begin selecting text, the Sniping Tools icon menu at
the top of the screen disappears, so there's nothing to double-click
on.

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From: the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm (Stan Brown)
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Subject: Re: OCR on Windows
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On Mon, 15 Jul 2024 23:01:24 +0200, Herbert Kleebauer wrote:
> On 15.07.2024 22:09, Stan Brown wrote:
>
> >> For only a few lines of text you can use the Snipping Tool: press
> >> <WIN><SHIFT>S and select the part of the screen with the text.
> >> When the Snipping Tool opens, select the OCR function.

I did mot write the above paragraph.

> > What OCR function? I just get a menu at the top of the screen
> > consisting of five icons: Rectangular snip, Freeform snip, Window
> > snip, Fullscreen snip, Close snipping.
>
>
> Maybe it is only available in Win11 but not in Win10.
> I have version: Snipping Tool 11.2405.32.0

Oh, silly me. We're in a Windows 10 newsgroup, so I thought we were
talking about a Windows 10 feature.

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Subject: Re: Irfanview on Windows
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On 14/07/2024 11:54, knuttle wrote:
> On 07/14/2024 3:25 AM, Herbert Kleebauer wrote:
>> On 14.07.2024 02:46, Bill Powell wrote:
>>
>>> I have a series of one-page PDFs that are really images and not text
>>> even
>>> though they look like they're just a page of simple text in the same
>>> font.
>>>
>>> Is there a way to easily OCR a PDF to actual text on Windows for free?
>>
>> For only a few lines of text you can use the Snipping Tool: press
>> <WIN><SHIFT>S and select the part of the screen with the text.
>> When the Snipping Tool opens, select the OCR function.
>>
>> Or you can use Firefox to display the pdf and and use an OCR
>> plug-in.
>>
> I use Irfanveiw for all my image and OCR projects.
>
> You need Irfanview and the OCR plugin.
>
> Open the PDF file in Irfanvieiw, high lite the text and activate the
> OCR function.

I recently had to sort out an XP machine with some 500 wrongly named &
corrupted files that contained photos.
I was pleasantly surprised at the number of different types of file that
Irfanview would open, play & sort out the correct extension. Save me
hundreds of clicks & hours of work.

--
Regards
wasbit

Subject: Re: OCR on Windows
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On 15/07/2024 22:01, Herbert Kleebauer wrote:
> On 15.07.2024 22:09, Stan Brown wrote:
>
> >> For only a few lines of text you can use the Snipping Tool: press
> >> <WIN><SHIFT>S and select the part of the screen with the text.
> >> When the Snipping Tool opens, select the OCR function.
> >
> >
> > What OCR function? I just get a menu at the top of the screen
> > consisting of five icons: Rectangular snip, Freeform snip, Window
> > snip, Fullscreen snip, Close snipping.
>
>
> Maybe it is only available in Win11 but not in Win10.
> I have version: Snipping Tool 11.2405.32.0
>
> https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/use-snipping-tool-to-capture-screenshots-00246869-1843-655f-f220-97299b865f6b#ID0EDD=Windows_11
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>

FYI
The snipping tool is available in Windows 8.1.
A better name would be Screenshot tool. I use it on a regular basis.

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Regards
wasbit

Subject: Re: Irfanview on Windows
From: Steve Hayes
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Organization: Khanya Publications
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2024 09:35 UTC
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On Fri, 19 Jul 2024 10:05:59 +0100, wasbit <wasbit@nowhere.com> wrote:

>I recently had to sort out an XP machine with some 500 wrongly named &
>corrupted files that contained photos.
>I was pleasantly surprised at the number of different types of file that
>Irfanview would open, play & sort out the correct extension. Save me
>hundreds of clicks & hours of work.

I find Irfanview very useful for all kinds of graphics tasks.

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Subject: Re: OCR on Windows
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On 7/18/2024 6:10 PM, Stan Brown wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Jul 2024 23:01:24 +0200, Herbert Kleebauer wrote:
>> On 15.07.2024 22:09, Stan Brown wrote:
>>
>> >> For only a few lines of text you can use the Snipping Tool: press
>> >> <WIN><SHIFT>S and select the part of the screen with the text.
>> >> When the Snipping Tool opens, select the OCR function.
>
> I did mot write the above paragraph.
>
>> > What OCR function? I just get a menu at the top of the screen
>> > consisting of five icons: Rectangular snip, Freeform snip, Window
>> > snip, Fullscreen snip, Close snipping.
>>
>>
>> Maybe it is only available in Win11 but not in Win10.
>> I have version: Snipping Tool 11.2405.32.0
>
> Oh, silly me. We're in a Windows 10 newsgroup, so I thought we were
> talking about a Windows 10 feature.
>

Windows 10 has two programs.

SnippingTool.exe is a win32 program, with a WinAmp-tiny interface and no features.
You would not expect to find any functions "sandwiched" into that.

But they also have "Snip and Sketch" Metro.App, with decorations suspiciously
similar to the Windows 11 "SnippingTool" Metro.App . Snip and Sketch is likely
the fast prototype version of the SnippingTool that ships on Windows 11.

Apparently, for a short time, a Text Actions was exposed on Win10 "Snip and Sketch",
but only for A/B testing (only a percentage of users would see it, and perhaps
with no warning either), and presumably completely removed again afterwards.

Search engines are pretty useless for tracking stuff like this. Using
relatively neutral keywords, as an example, I got one "result" on one page,
for one of my queries, almost like the topic was "verboten".

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One thing that is of minor interest, is OCR is part of .NET .

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/samples/microsoft/windows-universal-samples/ocr/

Without some sort of development history ("where did it come from"),
I doubt a lot of developers would invest time quantifying it
for suitability in a product. All the OCR things I've ever tested,
have sucked, so my going-in assumption when a new one shows up,
is it will be more of the same.

Paul

Subject: Re: Irfanview on Windows
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Steve Hayes wrote on Fri, 19 Jul 2024 11:35:06 +0200 :

>>I recently had to sort out an XP machine with some 500 wrongly named &
>>corrupted files that contained photos.
>>I was pleasantly surprised at the number of different types of file that
>>Irfanview would open, play & sort out the correct extension. Save me
>>hundreds of clicks & hours of work.
>
> I find Irfanview very useful for all kinds of graphics tasks.

I love that the Irfanview batch command can modify a set of images to
obfuscate fingerprinting (which is important as I upload many images).

This image fingerprinting only gets better by the day where it's already
capable of connecting two disparate images on the net to the exact camera.

Subject: Re: OCR on Windows
From: Mr. Man-wai Chang
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On 14/7/2024 8:46 am, Bill Powell wrote:
> I have a series of one-page PDFs that are really images and not text even
> though they look like they're just a page of simple text in the same font.
>
> Is there a way to easily OCR a PDF to actual text on Windows for free?

I think the free Micro$oft Onenote app got OCR.... couldn't quite
remmeber! ;)

Subject: Re: OCR on Windows
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On 14/07/2024 02:57, micky wrote:
> In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Sun, 14 Jul 2024 02:46:04 +0200, Bill
> Powell <bill@anarchists.org> wrote:
>
>> I have a series of one-page PDFs that are really images and not text even
>> though they look like they're just a page of simple text in the same font.
>>
>> Is there a way to easily OCR a PDF to actual text on Windows for free?
>
> Aren't there lots of websites that do this, but you have to upload the
> file. I've resisted that but would be really happpy if I could do it
> inside my computer.

Is tesseract not available on Windows?

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On 7/24/2024 4:18 PM, Peter Flynn wrote:
> On 14/07/2024 02:57, micky wrote:
>> In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Sun, 14 Jul 2024 02:46:04 +0200, Bill
>> Powell <bill@anarchists.org> wrote:
>>
>>> I have a series of one-page PDFs that are really images and not text even
>>> though they look like they're just a page of simple text in the same font.
>>>
>>> Is there a way to easily OCR a PDF to actual text on Windows for free?
>>
>> Aren't there lots of websites that do this, but you have to upload the
>> file. I've resisted that but would be really happpy if I could do it
>> inside my computer.
>
> Is tesseract not available on Windows?
>
> P

https://github.com/UB-Mannheim/tesseract/wiki

https://github.com/UB-Mannheim/tesseract/releases/download/v5.4.0.20240606/tesseract-ocr-w64-setup-5.4.0.20240606.exe

https://github.com/UB-Mannheim/tesseract/wiki/Install-additional-language-and-script-models

https://tesseract-ocr.github.io/tessdoc/Data-Files

The english file (training data), as an example, is 14.7MB.

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tesseract-ocr-w64-setup-5.4.0.20240606.exe 50,175,248 bytes

https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/c885fff6998e0608ba4bb8ab51436e1c6775c2bafc2559a19b423e18678b60c9

Haven't tested that.

Paul

Talkers are no good doers. -- William Shakespeare, "Henry VI"

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Subject	Author
OCR on Windows	Bill Powell
Re: OCR on Windows	micky
Re: OCR on Windows	Bill Powell
Re: OCR on Windows	Peter Flynn
Re: OCR on Windows	Paul
Re: OCR on Windows	Newyana2
Re: OCR on Windows	micky
Re: OCR on Windows	Jeff Barnett
Re: OCR on Windows	Newyana2
Re: OCR on Windows	micky
Re: OCR on Windows	Wolf Greenblatt
Re: OCR on Windows	Paul in Houston TX
Re: OCR on Windows	Nick Cine
Re: OCR on Windows	Bill Powell
Re: OCR on Windows	cable shill
Re: OCR on Windows	Stan Brown
Re: OCR on Windows	Jan K.
Re: OCR on Windows	Big Al
Re: OCR on Windows	Stan Brown
Re: OCR on Windows	Newyana2
Re: OCR on Windows	david
Re: OCR on Windows	Enrico Papaloma
Re: OCR on Windows	Joerg Walther
Re: OCR on Windows	Stan Brown
Re: OCR on Windows	Herbert Kleebauer
Re: OCR on Windows	knuttle
Re: OCR on Windows	Isaac Montara
Re: OCR on Windows	Stan Brown
Re: Irfanview on Windows	wasbit
Re: Irfanview on Windows	Steve Hayes
Re: Irfanview on Windows	Andrew
Re: OCR on Windows	Stan Brown
Re: OCR on Windows	Jørgen Nielsen
Re: OCR on Windows	Stan Brown
Re: OCR on Windows	Herbert Kleebauer
Re: OCR on Windows	Paul
Re: OCR on Windows	Herbert Kleebauer
Re: OCR on Windows	Stan Brown
Re: OCR on Windows	Paul
Re: OCR on Windows	wasbit
Re: OCR on Windows	Jim the Geordie
Re: OCR on Windows	Mr. Man-wai Chang