I think it would be useful to have an option to have Text Grab integrate into the Windows context menu so you could right click on an image file and grab the text quickly.

There should be an option to not copy to clipboard, if the "Show Toast" setting is enabled. It feels redundant to get a notification and have the text be copied to clipboard.

A more involved mode which quickly draws a table on the screen for a more seamless paste into Excel.

When taking a Full Screen Grab, holding shift should pan the region with the mouse releasing shift should return to normal region selection

How to reproduce:

1. Use Text Grab in a multimonitor environment
2. Mouseover taskbar open application icons on the monitor on which Text Grab was used. You'll notice that preview thumbnails no longer appear for those windows.

First, Great work Great Tool

Request : Right Click menu options to start, copy area via mouse, and stop.

This should make it easier and quicker to use. Either that or do something similar to ms snip.

There should be some sort of dialog which pops up to explain how Text Grab works on first run

Similar to Snip & Sketch, Text Grab could throw a toast notification when text is copied. When the toast is clicked a window which enables editing the text pops up

Have the ability to add or remove buttons from the bottom bar. Also make buttons icons or full buttons.

Text Grab is current not available in the Microsoft Store. Unclear why that is.

You would do ctrl + shift + any key to open text edit, and maybe other shortcuts for fullscreen or grab frame, but if that's too much work, the shortcut would open the default one you chose in settings.

The application hangs when running on windows 10 with other language than English (I suppose but at least using french).
Can be specific of english version with MUI.

Here is the .NET Runtime error reported in log :
Application: Text-Grab.exe
CoreCLR Version: 4.700.20.47201
.NET Core Version: 3.1.9
Description: The process was terminated due to an unhandled exception.
Exception Info: System.MissingMethodException: Method not found: 'System.String Windows.Globalization.Language.get_AbbreviatedName()'.
at Text_Grab.MainWindow.<>c__DisplayClass14_0.b__1(Language la)
at System.Linq.Enumerable.WhereListIterator1.ToList() at System.Linq.Enumerable.ToList[TSource](IEnumerable1 source)
at Text_Grab.MainWindow.ExtractText(Bitmap bmp, String languageCode, Nullable`1 singlePoint)
at Text_Grab.MainWindow.GetRegionsText(Rectangle selectedRegion)
at Text_Grab.MainWindow.RegionClickCanvas_MouseUp(Object sender, MouseButtonEventArgs e)
at System.Threading.Tasks.Task.<>c.b__139_0(Object state)
at System.Windows.Threading.ExceptionWrapper.InternalRealCall(Delegate callback, Object args, Int32 numArgs)
at System.Windows.Threading.ExceptionWrapper.TryCatchWhen(Object source, Delegate callback, Object args, Int32 numArgs, Delegate catchHandler)
at System.Windows.Threading.DispatcherOperation.InvokeImpl()
at System.Windows.Threading.DispatcherOperation.InvokeInSecurityContext(Object state)
at MS.Internal.CulturePreservingExecutionContext.CallbackWrapper(Object obj)
at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.RunInternal(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state)
--- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown ---
at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.RunInternal(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state)
at MS.Internal.CulturePreservingExecutionContext.Run(CulturePreservingExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state)
at System.Windows.Threading.DispatcherOperation.Invoke()
at System.Windows.Threading.Dispatcher.ProcessQueue()
at System.Windows.Threading.Dispatcher.WndProcHook(IntPtr hwnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wParam, IntPtr lParam, Boolean& handled)
at MS.Win32.HwndWrapper.WndProc(IntPtr hwnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wParam, IntPtr lParam, Boolean& handled)
at MS.Win32.HwndSubclass.DispatcherCallbackOperation(Object o)
at System.Windows.Threading.ExceptionWrapper.InternalRealCall(Delegate callback, Object args, Int32 numArgs)
at System.Windows.Threading.ExceptionWrapper.TryCatchWhen(Object source, Delegate callback, Object args, Int32 numArgs, Delegate catchHandler)
at System.Windows.Threading.Dispatcher.LegacyInvokeImpl(DispatcherPriority priority, TimeSpan timeout, Delegate method, Object args, Int32 numArgs)
at MS.Win32.HwndSubclass.SubclassWndProc(IntPtr hwnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wParam, IntPtr lParam)
at MS.Win32.UnsafeNativeMethods.DispatchMessage(MSG& msg)
at System.Windows.Threading.Dispatcher.PushFrameImpl(DispatcherFrame frame)
at System.Windows.Threading.Dispatcher.PushFrame(DispatcherFrame frame)
at System.Windows.Threading.Dispatcher.Run()
at System.Windows.Application.RunDispatcher(Object ignore)
at System.Windows.Application.RunInternal(Window window)
at System.Windows.Application.Run()
at Text_Grab.App.Main()

Here is the Application Error :
Nom de l’application défaillante Text-Grab.exe, version : 0.0.0.0, horodatage : 0x5f6b3846
Nom du module défaillant : KERNELBASE.dll, version : 10.0.17763.1790, horodatage : 0x16e07148
Code d’exception : 0xe0434352
Décalage d’erreur : 0x001226c2
ID du processus défaillant : 0x41f8
Heure de début de l’application défaillante : 0x01d73214e3607b4a
Chemin d’accès de l’application défaillante : C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\40087JoeFinApps.TextGrab_1.5.0.0_x86__kdbpvth5scec4\Text-Grab\Text-Grab.exe
Chemin d’accès du module défaillant: C:\WINDOWS\System32\KERNELBASE.dll
ID de rapport : 489e2446-6ba1-44da-8f6b-fa05418c7c7e
Nom complet du package défaillant : 40087JoeFinApps.TextGrab_1.5.0.0_x86__kdbpvth5scec4
ID de l’application relative au package défaillant : App

Switching windows 10 to English make it works.
Available for translation of the error above if needed.

Would love to be able to call up the app in "grab" mode using a keyboard shortcut, much in the way that Win+Shift+S opens up the graphics screen clip. Ideal if this could be switched on/off, custom selected and maybe having a default key such as Win+Ctrl+S (which seems to be unused by Windows and things like PowerToys).

Extract the most simple Regex Pattern from a selected string.

Char.IsLetter -> \w
Char.IsDigit -> \d
Char.IsWhitespace -> \s
Else, use exact match

ABC123 -> ( \w{3}\d{3})
ABC-123 -> (\w{3}-\d{3})

it should be possible to use a rectangular region selection to select the identified words within the Grab Frame

Make a method which takes a single column of stacked data and converts it to rows of data with a set column delimiter.

ex:

1
2
3
4
5
6

to

1 - 2 - 3
4 - 5 - 6

Is there a desire to have support for multiple languages? It appears that the API that you are using supports that: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/uwp/api/windows.media.ocr.ocrengine?view=winrt-19041#properties

I see that you are just using the language returned by InstalledLanguages.FirstOrDefault(). If you are interested in multi-lingual support, do you have any ideas of how you'd like to see that support added? I might be able to contribute a PR. Initially, the thing that comes to mind is using the current keyboard setting as the language.

When launching a new Full Screen Grab from a Edit Text Window, if pressing escape the Edit Text Window does not restore.

Example picture:

Extracted text:

Das Kennwort muss 8-64 Zeichen lang seim
Folgende Zeichen sind zulässig: a-z, A-ZI 0-9,
-+='l 0 0; und Platz.

as you can see, an "n." becomes an "m" and a "Z," becomes a "ZI".
special letters are missing completely

I have had a user tell me his Surface Pro X gets a gray screen and it does not work well when using Text Grab.

Create a button which executes a series of predefined commands like:

• Trim lines
• Make single line
• Copy
• Close

Do you have any plans on localizing the UI after #3 is done?
I'd suggest using some online platform like crowdin.com (free) so the community could help easily (without them having to install Visual Studio and you handling pull requests for translation updates).

I'd also like to offer my help translating from English to Czech (cs-CZ) if needed.

Thanks for this great tool.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filename#Comparison_of_filename_limitations

Type text into a search box and have that word highlighted on screen.

Text Grab could open a persistent frame which can be positioned around the screen and has a capture button. When pressing the capture button the frame does not go away, but text is grabbed and added to clipboard.
Maybe the frame could do more interesting things like display bounding boxes around recognized words.

Previous versions of the app worked fine, but now I can't copy cyrillic texts.

For example, it copies this text:

ЭТО ТЕСТОВЫЙ ТЕКСТ ДЛЯ КОПИРОВАНИЯ В ПРОГРАММУ

as this one:

310 TECTOBblVl TEKCT AJIR KOIUlPOBAHV19 B nporPAMMY

Windows 10 20H2, all the locales are RU-ru and the keyboard first language is russian.
TextGrab ver: 1.4.0.0