Ocr News and Articles

Kalmuri combines screenshots, screen recording, and OCR in a simple Windows app

Kalmuri is a free tool for screenshots and screen recording, with OCR and full-page web capture. The latest release improves WebP saving and OCR captures, also enhances image upload security.

By Ivan Franco, September 28, 2026, 9:10 AM

Gaming AI

This open-source tool uses AI to translate Japanese retro games on the fly

Interpreter uses OCR and an LLM to offer offline AI translation

By Alfonso Maruccia, January 5, 2026, 12:26 PM

Download of the Week Software

Text Grab is a lightweight OCR utility for instant text capture

Text Grab is a small app from the same developer behind PowerToys' Text Extractor. If you just need fast OCR without the rest of the suite, Text Grab gets it done with zero fuss.

By Ivan Franco, December 29, 2025, 11:32 AM

Software Microsoft

Microsoft simplifies copying text from images in Windows 11

Snipping Tool streamlines image-to-text workflow

By Daniel Sims, April 17, 2025, 10:02 PM 9 comments

Download of the Week Microsoft

New PowerToys release adds OCR utility, two more tools

Screen Ruler, Quick Accent and the anticipated Text Extractor to copy text from an image using OCR are the new utilities found on Microsoft PowerToys version 0.62.0. Free to download here.

By Ivan Franco, September 6, 2022, 5:20 PM