(This Update on 08/22/2025)
Tachufind Version 8.00 is the current versoin. (This version IS a BETA release and a complete rebuild, with many new features,
optomizations, and improved code.) Tutorials for it are posted.
If you are intrested in the SOURCE CODE for Tachufind, scroll down to the line "END OF INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS." below.
New Functionality:
Optical Character Recognition
SRT file creator, creates interlinear subtitles for YouTube movies.
Most Recent Update: 07/12/2025
SEE **** Below Near The Bottom Of The Page For The Extensive, Most Recent Maintenance Updates And Fixes:
Tachufind Version 8.00 is now available:
Tachufind Beta Version 8.00 Installation Instructions:
Step 1 - Create the Installation Folder
Open File Explorer.
Navigate to C:\Program Files.
Right-click in the folder and select New > Folder.
Name the folder "Tachufind".
Step 2: - Download and Unzip the File
Download the TachufindSetup.zip file from the provided link.
Right-click on the downloaded file and select "Extract All...".
Click the "Browse..." button and select the Tachufind folder you just created (e.g., C:\Program Files\Tachufind).
Click "Extract".
Step 3: - Create a Desktop Shortcut
Navigate to the Tachufind folder where you extracted the files (e.g., C:\Program Files\Tachufind).
Locate the file named Tachufind.exe.
Right-click on Tachufind.exe.
Select Send to > Desktop (create shortcut).
Step 4: - Run the Application
Double-click the Tachufind shortcut on your desktop.
The application should now open and be ready to use.
If you are interested in using the language(s) capabilities, you will need to install the language and the accompanying voice for Windows 10-11 if you do not have them installed.
Normally if you have added a language, it will work unless you excluded the voice when you downloaded it. See the tutorial
for Text-To-Speech for more details. If you have voices from other programs, there is a good chance they will work well with the
Tachufind speech engine.
END OF INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS.
As of today 8-22-2025, I am posting the whole C# code for Tachufind on this website. The app I consider to be OPEN SOURCE now. I just want to get it out there:
So it is now Creative Commons Zero (CC0):
-Anyone can use the code for any purpose.
-Anyone can modify it.
-Anyone can redistribute it, even in closed-source commercial products.
-No attribution (credit) is required.
-There is no copyright claim restricting use.
-This also allows anyone to examine the code, so they can rest assured that it is safe!
To download Tachufind Source Code Zip file, Size: 939 megabytes:
Be advised, this is no simple app . . . it has well over 20,000 lines of code, I have made an effort to use mostly object oriented principles when coding this. It is strongly recommended that you
back up your work if you make modifications, and I would also advise you to use Copilot, or Deep Seek, or some other AI that is good with code to help you with whatever you are planning on coding as modifications, it has been a great help to me.
Tachufind is programmed in C#, but does have various other dependencies, namely some windows code and Python. It is a big app, it was first started by me
Shawn Daniel Irwin, in 2011, and I have added to it almost constantly since then, at this point I consider it to be complete, even though there may be a tweek or two out there somewhere!
It is my hope that others can find it as useful as I have, I use it practically every day.
********************** MOST RECENT UPDATES **********************
08/14/2025 at 9:00PM Completed:
Closing the app prompted for save when file had been modified, but modification was not saving when user selected "Yes" to save.
Added context menu for right-click copy and paste operations
When a quiz question is deleted, it is not decrimented from the questions remaining.
Highlight eraser was only grey, and not adapting to back color changes.
Label was being displaced when quiz form was re-sized.
07/12/2025 at 012:11PM Completed:
Closing the app prompts for save when file has been modified, but modification was not saving when user selected "Yes" to save.
Added context menu for right-click copy and paste operations
When a quiz question is deleted, it is not decrimented from the questions remaining.
Highlight eraser was only grey, and not adapting to back color changes.
04/10/2025 at 03:11PM Completed:
Canceling a file open was clearing the the previous file when it shouldn't, (A very ugly bug indeed).
Added capability for some missing Russian accents (у́ for example).
Restored dual-language OCR capability, performance varies depending on languages you are working with.
On initial open of application, focus was being set on search box rather than main textbox.
02/14/2025 at 08:08AM Completed:
Form position was not updating properly.
Character/ Text-To-Speech button toggle was not saving its state.
Minor modification of Latin Optical Character Recognition process.
Font style changes (like Bold, Italics, Colors) were not preserving on font size change.
Save prompt performing excess prompts to save file.
On Screen Keyboard failed. Routed the command to Windows Powershell, so the command runs under Windows, thus solving the issue.
01/24/2025 at 11:58AM Completed:
Messagebox for time setting in Color Window was not becoming topmost, so was being buried by the form itself.
NEW FEATURE added, Convert Subtitle Files to Text-To-Speech files:
Paste the SRT text into the main window, Click Format > Build TTS File. (It's Fast!)
Minor corrections for the OCR for Latin Text Recognition.
01/16/2025 at 11:58AM Completed:
Paste into color window.
Search textbox on main form was missing some keyboard shortcut functions.
Search buttons on main form were not finding Greek characters.
01/11/2025 at 6:46AM CST : Code correction has been implimented:
Subtitle creator was not maximizing line times properly, this is now fixed.
Fixed issue with pasting into the main form search box.
If you need to update (that is, you installed Tachufind before the above listed date and time)
You can either delete the files under your Tachufind folder and unzip the TachufindSetup.zip file
into it, or simply overwrite the files as you unzip the files into that folder.
01/07/2025 at 1:05PM CST : Code correction has been implimented:
Color form ComboBox was not sorting, and textboxes not properly updating.
Fixes completed, App republished to website.
This is a beta version, so if you run into any issues, you are welcome to email me and let me
know, hopefully with a screen-shot and description of the steps that led up to the issue, and any error messages.
skywola@hotmail.com Thanks!