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04.3 · OCR and Text Extraction

The OCR Result Popup

Every OCR call opens the OCR Result Popup (550 × 450, resizable). It is the same window whether you triggered OCR via Ctrl+Shift+O or Ctrl+T.

Layout

ZoneContents
Title bar"OCR Result" label, Confidence% badge, processing-time badge (ms), close button.
Text areaScrollable, editable plain-text control filled with the extracted text.
Action barCopy, Save, Share buttons.

The confidence badge gives you a quick at-a-glance quality check before you trust the result — anything under 70 % usually warrants a second look.

Auto-Copy

Tip

Setting — Ocr.AutoCopyText (default off). When on, Tex places the extracted text on the clipboard the moment OCR finishes, before you see the popup.

This is the fastest workflow: hit Ctrl+Shift+O, draw a region, the text is already on your clipboard, paste anywhere. The popup still appears so you can verify or tweak.

Edit-Before-Copy Workflow

Because the text area is editable, you can clean up OCR artefacts before sending the text on:

  1. Run OCR (region or loaded capture).
  2. Popup appears — read the text.
  3. Fix any misreads in-place (common culprits: l/1/I, O/0, stray punctuation from borders).
  4. Select all (Ctrl+A) and click Copy.
  5. Paste into your destination.
Tip

Tip — If Auto-Copy is on and you edit the text afterwards, click Copy to replace the clipboard contents with your edited version. The auto-copied text is the raw output.

Save and Share

  • Save writes the text to a .txt file via the standard save dialog.
  • Share hands the text to the system share target (email, Teams, etc. — see section 08).

Every OCR run, whether you save or not, is recorded in the OCR History window (04.04).