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Capture2Text enables language learners to do the following:
■ Optical Character Recognition (OCR) - Allows the user to quickly snapshot a small portion of the screen, OCR it and (by default) save the result to the clipboard.
■ Speech Recognition - Using speech recognition the user can speak into their microphone and Capture2Text will convert the speech to text. If the speech recognition technology is not 100% sure, Capture2Text will present the user with a list of the most likely transcriptions. The selected result will (by default) be copied to the clipboard.
I downloaded the application and all I could see is a couple AHK (AutoHotKey) files and a .c (C) source code file.
I got really excited that someone had pushed the boundaries with AutoIt but it appears to be a wrapper for a couple of utilities, one of which is the very famous >> http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/
I downloaded the application and all I could see is a couple AHK (AutoHotKey) files and a .c (C) source code file.
Yup, you are correct. http://sourceforge.net/projects/capture2text/ mentions AutoIt for programming language. I did not bother to check the SourceCode folder. Feels kinda stupid now . Well, we know at least what gets guinness excited .
- Added the Preferences dialog. No more editing settings.ini by hand.
- The popup window is now multi-lined.
- Added option to preserve newline characters.
- Limited preview to 150 characters. A trailing "..." will appear if necassary.
- Added Speech Recognition Language option to right-click menu.
- Cleaned up the right-click menu.
- On the first run, inform user how to access the Preferences dialog.
I have to comment that this is the best free OCR software ever, portable up to 100% cuz it wrote in Autohotkey language, support nhocr and tesseract engine, if who want to use GOCR, it is very easy to add GOCR support to this software.
Only ConvertImageFormat.exe wrote in C, because it is a plugin of this software.
Hello & Thanks ,
I downloaded and am running Download Capture2Text_v3.7.zip
I left the prefs as is .
But when I click win +q over a screen area
I don't get any blueBox .
The window which my cursor is over
goes dimmer , and when I click another win +q
the window gets brighter again . But nothing gets copied to the cipboard .
I didn't realize til just now that this pgm is autoit .
Does that mean that I need to install autoit to get this thing working ?
I was hoping to use this gadget in place of GetWindowText program , which does'nt work very well .
vmars316 wrote:Hello & Thanks ,<br sab="737">I downloaded and am running Download Capture2Text_v3.7.zip <br sab="738">I left the prefs as is .<br sab="739">But when I click win +q over a screen area <br sab="740">I don't get any blueBox .<br sab="741">The window which my cursor is over <br sab="742">goes dimmer , and when I click another win +q <br sab="743">the window gets brighter again . But nothing gets copied to the cipboard .<br sab="744">I didn't realize til just now that this pgm is autoit . <br sab="745">Does that mean that I need to install autoit to get this thing working ? <br sab="746">I was hoping to use this gadget in place of GetWindowText program , which does'nt work very well .<br sab="747"><br sab="748">Thanks..Vern
No, you do not need Autoit to run Capture2Text BUT you definitely to go through the "readme" document.
v3.8 is out (sort of old news as it arrived back in January)
I realized I was doing a bunch of OCR work via OneNote, which is not a program I'm fond of. As a result, I came back to this program first mentioned on FWG a long time ago.