No Possible OCR languages are installed
See original GitHub issueMicrosoft 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:
- Created a year ago
- Comments:37 (13 by maintainers)
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@dotriz that’s weird, can you post a screenshot of your Settings->Language page?
Looks like that for me, I think those 5 icons on English pack means it supports OCR on my machine
fyi @yuyoyuppe, I am scanning English text and my PC language is also English, but still I see this error.