Taking screenshot and converting captured text into selectable text?

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In Snaggit it has a feature that let's you take a screenshot and if there are texts on screen it converts the text into selectable text (somehow) so you can copy and paste the text into a text editor for example. Is there any free software that can do that?

xiaodai

Posted 2010-08-30T10:35:43.847

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You can use Google Docs. They allow for OCR as you upload image.

Josip Medved

Posted 2010-08-30T10:35:43.847

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Clever! I will give it a try now! – xiaodai – 2010-08-30T11:44:55.270

It's not perfect. Often doesn't get everything. – xiaodai – 2010-08-30T11:53:51.737

@xiaodai: Perfect OCR is mythical creature - usually not found... :) – Josip Medved – 2010-08-30T13:52:56.030

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gocr and ocrad (available for at least Linux/Unix) comes to my mind.

Janne Pikkarainen

Posted 2010-08-30T10:35:43.847

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Any Windows software? Thanks – xiaodai – 2010-08-30T11:07:35.920

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