From: noreply@mixmin.net
On Sat, 26 Jul 2025 11:47:28 -0400, StanWeiss wrote:
>What are you using for OCR?
i've been using this in windows 11 with excellent results . . . very
easy to use . . . accurate, handy, i've used this quite often . . .
(using Tor Browser 14.5.5)
https://capture2text.sourceforge.net/
>Capture2Text
>Contents
> *What is Capture2Text?
> *Download
> *System Requirements
> *How to Launch
> *Troubleshooting & FAQ
> *Related Tools for Japanese Language Learners
>What is Capture2Text?
>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.
>Conceptual illustration:
>Capture2Text is free and licensed under the terms of the GNU General
>Public License.
>Download
>The latest version can be found on the Capture2Text download page
> *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
>hosted by SourceForge.
>https://sourceforge.net/projects/capture2text/files/Capture2Text/
>Download Latest Version
>Capture2Text_v4.6.3_64bit.zip (63.6 MB)
>https://sourceforge.net/projects/capture2text/files/latest/download
(Capture2Text_v4.6.3_64bit.zip / 60.6 MB), extracted . . .
(Capture2Text_v4.6.3_64bit / 150 MB / 29 Files, 5 Folders) . . .
(tested this program and it runs fine in windows 7 and windows 11)
>System Requirements
>Supported operating systems:
> *Windows 7
> *Windows 8/8.1
> *Windows 10
>Note: Windows XP support has been dropped as of Capture2Text v4.0.
>How to Launch Capture2Text (no installation required)
> 1. Unzip the contents of the zip file.
> 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).
>Installing Additional OCR Languages
>By default Capture2Text 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:
> 1. Download the appropriate OCR language dictionary.
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/capture2text/files/Dictionaries/
> 2. Open the ".zip" file you just downloaded with 7-Zip or similar
> decompression software.
> 3. Drag all files contained within the zip file to the tessdata
> folder:
> 4. Restart Capture2Text.
>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:
> 1. Position your mouse pointer at the top-left corner of the text
> that you want to OCR.
> 2. Press the OCR hotkey (Windows Key + Q) to begin an OCR capture.
> 3. 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.
> 4. 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 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.
>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) Capture2Text will attempt to automatically strip out
>furigana.
>How to Perform a Text Line OCR Capture
>Capture2Text can automatically capture the line of text that is
>closest to the mouse pointer.
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