Tool Capture2Text OCR Software

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Capture2Text enables users to quickly OCR a portion of the screen using a keyboard shortcut.
The resulting text will be saved to the clipboard by default.

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Source code is included.

How to Launch (no installation required)

1. Unzip the contents of the zip file. Make sure that there are no Asian or other non-ASCII characters in the path where you unzipped it. Don't unzip it to the "Program Files" directory (this will avoid issues related to write privileges).
2. Double-click on Capture2Text.exe. You should see the Capture2Text icon on the bottom-right of your screen (though it might be hidden in which case you will have to click on the "Show hidden icons" arrow).

OCR

Spoiler: Capture2Text can OCR the following languages:

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By default only English, French, German, Italian, Japanese and Spanish are installed.

How to install additional languages:

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   the appropriate OCR language dictionary.
2. Open the ".zip" file you just downloaded with
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   or similar decompression software.
3. Drag all files contained within the zip file to this path in the Capture2Text folder: Capture2Text\Utils\tesseract\tessdata
4. Restart Capture2Text

How to OCR:

1. Position your mouse at the top-left corner of the text that you want to OCR.
2. Press the OCR key (Windows Key + Q) to begin an OCR capture.
3. Move your mouse to resize the blue box over the text that you want to OCR.
4. Press the OCR key again or left-click to complete the OCR capture. The OCR'd text will be placed in the clipboard.

To cancel an OCR capture, press ESC.

To move the entire OCR capture box, hold down the right mouse button and drag.

To nudge the OCR capture box, use the arrow keys.

To toggle the active OCR capture box corner, press the space bar.

To change the OCR language, right-click the Capture2Text tray icon, select the OCR Language option and then select the desired language.

To quickly switch between 3 languages, use the OCR language quick access keys: Windows Key + 1, Windows Key + 2, and Windows Key + 3.

When Chinese or Japanese is selected, you should specify the text direction (vertical/horizontal/auto) using the text direction key: Windows Key + W. If auto is selected, horizontal will be used when the capture width is more than twice the height, otherwise vertical will be used. The text direction also affects how furigana is stripped from Japanese text.

(For Japanese) When OCR pre-processing is enabled, by default, Capture2Text will attempt to strip out furigana. You may disable this behavior in "Preferences... -> OCR -> Strip Furigana".

Using the Preferences dialog, you can change the following OCR settings:

• OCR Hotkeys.
• Current OCR Language.
• The 3 Quick-Access OCR Languages.
• Capture Box color and opacity.
• Enable/Disable the preview box and change its colors, font, opacity and location.
• OCR Method (quality vs. speed).
• Change the text direction (used for Chinese and Japanese).
• Specify whitelist characters.
• Enable/Disable OCR pre-processing.
• Enable/Disable stripping of furigana (for Japanese).

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Thanks:

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