{"categories":[{"label":"Text Processing","url":"https://skillfed.io/packages/category/text-processing/3"}],"enrichment":{"capability":"Provides Python bindings to Windows Runtime (WinRT) optical character recognition APIs, enabling text extraction from images using native Windows OCR capabilities.","skillfed_tags":["windows-only","ocr","async-first"],"use_cases":["Extract text from screenshots or captured images in Windows desktop applications without external OCR services.","Build document scanning utilities that convert images to searchable text using native Windows capabilities.","Automate UI testing by reading text from application windows or screenshots programmatically.","Process scanned documents or photos to extract and index text content locally on Windows machines."],"what_it_does":"This package exposes Windows Runtime OCR functionality through Python bindings, part of the modular PyWinRT project that wraps individual Windows SDK namespaces. It allows developers to perform optical character recognition on images using the native Windows Media.Ocr API without external dependencies like Tesseract or cloud services.\n\nThe package is Windows-only and requires Python 3.9 or later. It depends on winrt-runtime and is distributed as platform-specific wheels for 32-bit, 64-bit, and ARM64 Windows architectures across Python versions 3.9 through 3.14. OCR operations are async-first, following WinRT's asynchronous design patterns. The project is community-maintained as part of PyWinRT, which evolved from Microsoft's original xlang project and now publishes modular bindings for individual Windows SDK namespaces.","worth_installing":"Yes, if you are building a Windows-only application that needs OCR and can accept the async/await pattern. The MIT license is permissive, there are no known vulnerabilities, and the package integrates directly with Windows' built-in OCR engine, avoiding external service dependencies. Maintenance is aging but stable; last commit was recent. Not suitable for cross-platform projects or applications requiring synchronous OCR calls."},"id":"winrt-windows-media-ocr","links":{"html":"https://skillfed.io/packages/winrt-windows-media-ocr","md":"https://skillfed.io/packages/winrt-windows-media-ocr.md","pypi":"https://pypi.org/project/winrt-windows-media-ocr/"},"maintenance":{"status":"aging"},"meta":{"latest_release":"2025-06-06","license_spdx":"MIT","license_treatment":"permissive","name":"winrt-Windows.Media.Ocr","python_support":"supports_current","summary":"Python projection of Windows Runtime (WinRT) APIs"},"popularity":{"monthly_downloads":119547,"position":12067,"tier":"top_15000"},"security":{"n_vulnerabilities":0},"version":"3.2.1"}