[thelist] screen ocr.. kleptomania alternatives?

Sam-I-Am sam at sam-i-am.com
Fri Jun 15 12:56:19 CDT 2001


> SnagIt (32 bit)?
> 
> If I recall it does screen OCR...
> 
> http://download.cnet.com/downloads/0-10077-100-5816629.html?tag=st.dl.10000-
> 103-1.lst-7-1.5816629
> 
> But after reading the description again - maybe not.

it does have a text capture mode.. but it doesn't actually OCR bitmaps,
just looks for all text. And on NT even this is limited to the clipboard
or a fullscreen DOS window (though who knows why...)

I would have thought it would be vastly easier to OCR from the screen
than from a scanned document... but I must be missing something as I
can't find much out there. 
I guess I could install conventional OCR software and point it at a
screenshot.. but the idea is to save time here!

Sam




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