capture2text.sourceforge.netCapture2Text: Optical Character Recognition Software

Contents What is ? Download System Requirements How to Launch Installing Additional OCR Languages How to Perform a Standard OCR Capture How to Perform a Text Line OCR Capture How to Perform a Forward Text Line OCR Capture How to Perform a Bubble OCR Capture How to Specify the Active OCR Language Translation Settings Command Line Options Troubleshooting & FAQ Related Tools for Japanese Language Learners What is ? 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. Conceptual illustration: is free and licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License . Download The latest version can be found on the download page hosted by SourceForge. System Requirements Supported operating systems: Windows 7 Windows 8/8.1 Windows 10 Note: Windows XP support has been dropped as of v4.0. How to Launch (no installation required) Unzip the contents of the zip file. Double-click on .exe. You should see the 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). Installing Additional OCR Languages By default comes packaged with the following languages: English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Russian, and Spanish. Follow these steps if you would like to install additional OCR languages: Download the appropriate OCR language dictionary. Open the ".zip" file you just downloaded with 7-Zip or similar decompression software. Drag all files contained within the zip file to the tessdata folder: Restart . The following OCR languages are supported: Afrikaans (afr) Greek (ell) Odiya (ori) Albanian (sqi) Gujarati (guj) Panjabi (pan) Amharic (amh) Haitian (hat) Persian (fas) Ancient Greek (grc) Hebrew (heb) Polish (pol) Arabic (ara) Hindi (hin) Portuguese (por) Assamese (asm) Hungarian (hun) Pushto (pus) Azerbaijani (aze) Icelandic (isl) Romanian (ron) Basque (eus) Indic (inc) Russian (rus) Belarusian (bel) Indonesian (ind) Sanskrit (san) Bengali (ben) Inuktitut (iku) Serbian (srp) Bosnian (bos) Irish (gle) Sinhala (sin) Bulgarian (bul) Italian (ita) Slovak (slk) Burmese (mya) Japanese (jpn) Slovenian (slv) Catalan (cat) Javanese (jav) Spanish (spa) Cebuano (ceb) Kannada (kan) Swahili (swa) Central Khmer (khm) Kazakh (kaz) Swedish (swe) Cherokee (chr) Kirghiz (kir) Syriac (syr) Chinese - Simplified (chi_sim) Korean (kor) Tagalog (tgl) Chinese - Traditional (chi_tra) Kurukh (kru) Tajik (tgk) Croatian (hrv) Lao (lao) Tamil (tam) Czech (ces) Latin (lat) Telugu (tel) Danish (dan) Latvian (lav) Thai (tha) Dutch (nld) Lithuanian (lit) Tibetan (bod) Dzongkha (dzo) Macedonian (mkd) Tigrinya (tir) English (eng) Malay (msa) Turkish (tur) Esperanto (epo) Malayalam (mal) Uighur (uig) Estonian (est) Maltese (mlt) Ukrainian (ukr) Finnish (fin) Marathi (mar) Urdu (urd) Frankish (frk) Math/Equations (equ) Uzbek (uzb) French (fra) Middle English (1100-1500) (enm) Vietnamese (vie) Galician (glg) Middle French (1400-1600) (frm) Welsh (cym) Georgian (kat) Nepali (nep) Yiddish (yid) German (deu) Norwegian (nor) How to Perform a Standard OCR Capture Follow these steps to perform a standard OCR capture using the capture box: Position your mouse pointer at the top-left corner of the text that you want to OCR. Press the OCR hotkey (Windows Key + Q) to begin an OCR capture. Move your mouse to resize the blue capture box over the text that you want to OCR. You may hold down the right mouse button and drag to move the entire capture box. Press the OCR hotkey again (or left-click or press ENTER) to complete the OCR capture. The OCR’d text will be placed in the clipboard and a popup showing the captured text will appear (the popup may be disabled in the settings). As with all OCR captures, you must manually select the language that you would like to OCR from the settings. To change the OCR language, right-click the 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. The quick access languages may be specified in the settings. When Chinese or Japanese is selected, you should specify the text direction (vertical/horizontal/auto) using the text direction hotkey: Windows Key + O. 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) will attempt to automatically strip out furigana. How to Perform a Text Line OCR Capture can automatically capture the line of text that is closest to the mouse pointer. Follow these steps to perform a Text Line OCR Capture: Position your mouse pointer on or near the line of text to capture. Press the Text Line OCR Capture hotkey (Windows Key + E). will outline the captured text and save the OCR result to the clipboard. Example: How to Perform a Forward Text Line OCR Capture can automatically capture the line of text starting at the character that is closest to the mouse pointer and working forward. Follow these steps to perform a Forward Text Line OCR Capture: Position your mouse pointer on or near the character to start at. Press the Forward Text Line OCR Capture hotkey (Windows Key + W). will outline the captured text and save the OCR result to the clipboard. Example: How to Perform a Bubble OCR Capture can automatically capture text contained within a comic book speech/thought bubble as long as the bubble is completely enclosed. Follow these steps to perform a Bubble OCR Capture: Position your mouse pointer in the empty part of the bubble (not on the text). Press the bubble OCR Capture hotkey (Windows Key + S). will outline the captured text and save the OCR result to the clipboard. Example: How to Specify the Active OCR Language To specify the active OCR language, right-click the tray icon, click on OCR Language, and select an OCR languages from the list: Translation To enable the translation feature, start by opening the settings dialog (right-click tray icon and select "Settings..."), and clicking on the Translate tab. Check the "Append translation to clipboard" checkbox to append the translated text to the clipboard using the provided separator. Check the "Show translation in popup window" checkbox to display the translated text along side the OCR text in the popup window. For example:. Each installed OCR language may be translated to a different language. Note 1: Some OCR languages do not have translation support. Unsupported languages will not be displayed. Note 2: The translation feature requires Internet access. Settings Right-click the tray icon in the bottom-right of your screen and then select the "Settings..." option to bring up the Settings dialog. You may hover over many of the option labels to display a helpful tooltip explaining the option. The Hotkeys tab allows you to specify which key and modifiers to use for each hotkey. To disable a hotkey, select "Unmapped" from the drop-down list. Current OCR language: Specify the active OCR language to use. You may also specify the active OCR language in the tray icon menu. Quick-Access Languages: The languages to use for each of the quick-access language hotkeys. Whitelist: Inform the OCR engine that the captured text will only contain the provided characters. Blacklist: Inform the OCR engine that the captured text will never contain the provided characters. Text Orientation: The orientation of the text that will be captured. This option is only used when Chinese or Japanese is set as the active OCR language. 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. You may also specify the text orientation in the tray icon menu or with the Text Orientation hotkey....