Security News > 2022 > August > New Windows PowerToy OCR tool will let you copy text from images
Microsoft PowerToys is getting a new utility called PowerOCR that lets you select text in an image and copy it directly to the Windows clipboard.
The new PowerToy is being developed by Windows app/utility developer Joseph Finney who opened a 'pull request' on July 4th announcing the new PowerOCR program he was creating.
As the tool is based on the already published Text Grab app, PowerOCR has seen rapid development with the help of other volunteer developers and Microsoft employees.
As you can see from a demonstration of the PowerOCR tool below, you can use your mouse to select a region of text in an image and it will automatically be converted into text and copied to the Windows clipboard.
Ocr API to convert the text in an image, which allows developers to add optical character recognition functionality to their programs.
Having a tool like PowerOCR on the desktop will make it much easier to extract text from images and immediately use it within your applications.