Capture2Text is a free program for Windows that provides you with OCR (Optical Character Recognition) functionality. For those who didn't understand, the application allows you to highlight anything on your desktop to retrieve the text and copy it to the Windows Clipboard.
The Capture2Text application works similarly to other free solutions such as Free OCR or Java-bsed JOCR, but is updated regularly and is fully compatible with all recent versions of Windows.
OCR features are useful when you need to copy text that appears in images or other file formats that do not allow text copying and editing.
The Capture2Text application is quite large (the exe is over 60 Megabytes), but it doesn't require installation. You can simply run the exe from any Windows computer, as it is portable.
The program uses approximately 60 megabytes of memory when running.
The application highlights the text with an overlay on the screen and in a program window. You can edit the text directly from there, which is quite practical especially if the OCR did not recognize the characters correctly. The content is automatically copied to the Clipboard from where you can edit it in any way you see fit.
Capture2Text supports several languages, and the default setting is English. However, you will find other languages such as German, French, Japanese or Spanish in the settings. The application also supports Greek.
There are a total of 106 languages on the project page on SourceForge at the moment.
Capture2Text supports automatic translation but you need to enable it from the program options. If enabled, it will translate a recognized language into another using Google Translate.
Capture2Text is a powerful OCR software for Windows. It is a bit heavy on the memory side when running, but the OCR capabilities and additional functionality it offers justify it.
OCR error rates are low.
Download the latest version from Sourceforge.net
