Easy Screen OCR for Windows and macOS recognize text from images, or directly from the screen
Vindovs Macos / / December 19, 2019
Suppose you want to extract from a printed text. From protected PDF, from the image, with screenshots from the site where the copy text off - yes anywhere. You can, of course, to install bulky and powerful ABBYY FineReader, but in most cases it possible redundancy. Tiny utility Easy Screen OCR recognizes any text faster than Fine Reader starts.
Download and install Easy Screen OCR. The app has versions for Windows and MacOS. After installing and running in the system tray of your operating system the application icon is displayed. Click the right mouse button and open Settings (Preferences).
In the settings you can enable the launch of the program with the system. In addition, the tab "Language» (Language) present an important option - text recognition language.
By switching to this tab, select the drop-down list OCR Languages Russian language, and then close the settings. Total Easy Screen OCR supports about a hundred languages.
Now, the program is ready to work. To recognize any text on the screen, click the icon Easy Screen OCR in the system tray, right-click and select Capture. You can select an area of the screen with uncopyable whereas the text.
Then, at the bottom of the pop-up window with the captured area. Click the OCR button and the program will show you the finished text. It can be copied and edited.
In addition, Easy Screen OCR is able to copy text from pictures. To do this, select the item in the Image OCR menu and drag the desired image in the window that appears. The program can scan not only typed text, and even handwritten.
Easy Screen OCR can try for free for three days, then it is necessary to subscribe for $ 9 per month (or 49 per year). If, after learning about these conditions, you have decided that it is not so and you should be, then here's a list of free online tools for OCR.
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Price: Free