No Possible OCR languages are installed

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Microsoft PowerToys version

0.62.0

Running as admin

  • Yes

Area(s) with issue?

TextExtractor

Steps to reproduce

Press Window + Shift + T and then select a screen area with text

✔️ Expected Behavior

It should copy the text to clipboard

❌ Actual Behavior

It gives this error

“No Possible OCR languages are installed”

Other Software

No response

Issue Analytics

  • State:closed
  • Created a year ago
  • Comments:37 (13 by maintainers)

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yuyoyuppecommented, Sep 8, 2022

@dotriz that’s weird, can you post a screenshot of your Settings->Language page? image

Looks like that for me, I think those 5 icons on English pack means it supports OCR on my machine

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dotrizcommented, Sep 8, 2022

fyi @yuyoyuppe, I am scanning English text and my PC language is also English, but still I see this error.

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