ABBYY Screenshot Reader is he software OCR that recognizes text in more than 180 Languages, from screenshots.
Like other ABBYY products, like FineReader, this application uses the optical character recognition (OCR) to identify text in an image.
Here we show you how it works and how to download it completely free.
ABBYY Screenshot Reader
ABBYY Screenshot Reader permite take a screenshot and extract the text from it.
Thus, every time you surf the internet and you come across a text that you cannot select or an image with text; just run the program, take a screenshot and get the editable text.
The application is displayed in a small window and has 3 options:
- Capture: choose the way you want to take the screenshot. You can select an area, window, the full screen or a schedule to capture the full screen in the next 5 seconds.
- Idiom: to choose the language of the text to extract. If you don't know what language it is, you can choose automatic selection. In addition to the languages of the different countries, you can also choose artificial languages or formal languages (such as chemical formulas or programming languages).
- Submit: to choose where to send the text. You can choose to copy to clipboard, export text to a .txt file, copy text to a table, export table to file, export to an image, an image to a file or an image to an email.
After choosing these options, you must click the button Take a screenshot (Alt + To enter). Then drag the mouse to take the screenshot.
Unlike a screen capture program, this tool extract text to be editable.
With a single click you can copy the text of the images to the clipboard or send it to Microsoft Word or a text file, for example.
Text recognition
This small but powerful application can be used in multiple ways.
For example, you may use ABBYY Screenshot Reader to capture and extract text in another language from an image and then copy it into a translation tool.
The program is capable of extract text in more than 180 Languages, including texts based on characters from some writing systems such as Latin or Chinese.
With ABBYY Screenshot Reader you can do website screenshots, documents, images, PDF, videos and everything you see on the screen; and then extract the editable text.
Supports BMP image formats, JPG y PNG; as well as documents in DOCX formats (Microsoft Word), XLSX (Microsoft Excel), RTF (Rich Text Format), CSV, TXT y ODT (OpenOffice.org Writer).
Regarding the system requirements, you need a Windows PC 10 / 8.1 / 8/7 / Vista / XP o Windows Server 2008/2008 R2 / 2003.
After install it, you must register the copy of the program in order to use it. You can use the first option (online) and fill in the required information. Thus, you can use the program for free.
Even if ABBYY Screenshot Reader It is a paid program, there is a free version that does not require an activation license.
