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I started playing with 'image scan ocr' (from the windows store I think) - to bulk pull the text from a bunch of screenshots / pics - hoping to export it all and make it searchable..

It did some things well, but I did not complete the mission for reasons I can't recall.

I think powertoys->Text Extractor

and other windows apps have this built in now, including the built-in win 11 'snipping tool' - ( https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/windows-11/what...

I was reading that MSsoft preinstalled Edge browser has " Enable Edge Screenshot Tool with Copilot, OCR and Search" - but I am unsure if this is on device or shared to cloud.



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