Capture2Text

Is not working well for Chinese. No project activity for about 4 years so seems no hope for improvements. Nice idea, works reasonably well for ASCII text. No method to know which encoding the character was using after OCR, if just UTF-16 then character detection is not good. Similar issue was report long ago, still pending.

I use this app to capture dates from image-like PDFs, it saves me a lot of time to type those dates manually. I configured to fix captured dates with help of regular expressions in the configuration screen.

Created an entire account just to leave this review, I hope this thing works better for Latin letters but I used it to translate Japanese text and not once did it even detect the correct character, I assume this problem only gets worse in Chinese or Korean translations. If you're looking into this for a translation of any of the language mentioned, a blurry Google lens taking a picture of a screenshot through a monitor screen genuinely works 10 times better than this

Great

Read settings.ini or Preferences first! I don't use it daily. A Windows script reminds me of its usage (replace \n with new lines to use the code): @echo off\necho Set the pointer at the top-left corner of the required text.\necho If necessary, press Windows+1 (not on the numpad!) for [language other than the default].\necho Press F5 (or whatever you set in settings.ini or Preferences)\necho and complete the selection.\nstart "" Capture2Text.exe\npause\nset /p P=[Enter] to end the Capture2Text process. [Space][Enter] to exit this window.\nif defined P exit \ntaskkill /f /im Capture2Text.exe\nif ERRORLEVEL 255 (echo Access denied) else (taskkill /f /im explorer.exe) && (if ERRORLEVEL 128 (echo Process not found) else (start "" explorer.exe))