Unlike Capture2Text (my old post: https://windowsfreewareguide.blogspot.com/2022/03/capture2text-extract-text-from-screen.html), this app is easy to set up - just download and install it. Capture2Text is a good name, it tells what the app is all about. dpScreenOCR can use the same definition, it captures the screen, extracts text from it and sends text to the clipboard.
The test steps - dpScreenOCR 1.3.0
OS: Windows 11 Home
Download: https://danpla.github.io/dpscreenocr/
1. Download the installer for Windows.
Open the downloaded file, a new window shows, click 'More info'.
Click 'Run anyway'.
A new window shows, I clicked 'Install for all users'.
Follow the on-screen instructions until the installation finishes.
2. Open the program.
A program window showed, at tab 'Main', I checked 'Copy text to clipboard', then unchecked 'Add text to history'. I set a hotkey: Ctrl+Shift+O.
Minimize the program window, don't close it because the program will quit.
3. How to use it: place a mouse pointer at top left or bottom right of target area.
Then press a hotkey, drag to create rect., press the hotkey again.
The extracted text will be sent to the clipboard. Paste the text to the document.
The result shows in the picture above. I think it's pretty good.
Next one, I captured the text on the program window.
4. I checked 'Add text to history', Text was sent to the tab 'History'
At tab 'History', I clicked 'Export...'.
I was exported as .txt file.
The picture below is the content of the exported file.
It should be the options for the exported file:
a. Show/hide date and time.
b. Show text and remove blank lines:
Character recognition
Name Code
c. Show text in one line with a separator (comma,colon etc...):
Character recognition, Name Code
Those options will save users time for editing a text file.
The test steps - dpScreenOCR 1.3.0
OS: Windows 11 Home
Download: https://danpla.github.io/dpscreenocr/
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