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Microsoft Win11/10 free tool set PowerToys 0.62 released, adding screen ruler, OCR text recognition and other tools

Shulou Source: shulou.com Published: 2023-11-24 10:29:57 10月02日 Update

Thank you, CTOnews.com netizens, for your clue delivery! CTOnews.com Sept. 7, Microsoft's free system utility suite called PowerToys has been revived from the Windows XP era and introduced Windows 10 in May 2019. Can be used for advanced users to adjust and simplify Windows operations to improve efficiency. Used in conjunction with Windows 10/Windows 11 shell while allowing users to customize individual workflows.

Today, PowerToys version 0.62 has been released on GitHub, this update mainly adds three new tools, let's take a look.

Screen ruler Screen Ruler: a quick and easy way to measure screen pixels. The shortcut key is Win + Shift + M.

Quick Accent: an easy way to write stressed letters by pressing and holding down the key of the character to which you want to add stress, pressing the activation key, and then displaying an overlay for selecting stressed characters.

Text extractor Text Extractor: the method is similar to the screenshot tool, but you can copy the text out of the selected area and place it on the clipboard through OCR, the shortcut key is Win + Shift + T.

PowerToy Run comes with a new plug-in that allows users to search through past query results.

In addition, PowerToys version 0.62 upgraded Windows App SDK to version 1.1.4 and made Bug fixes for a number of tools.

CTOnews.com partners can download version 0.62 of PowerToys from GitHub or the Microsoft App Store, and be careful to distinguish between x64 and arm64 versions.