EasyScreenOCR

Transcribing text has got to be one of the most time wasting activities on a computer. Fortunately, Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software can spare us from such a tedium. An excellent example is EasyScreenOCR, which allows you to capture text from any image on your screen. The application was created with efficiency in mind, which is why you can capture text at a moment's notice, without going through a large number of options.

EasyScreenOCR is free and it can be used on any popular Windows platform. It comes in a small package and it can be installed in under a second. There is no need to install any special tools or drivers and you don't need powerful hardware to run the application.

EasyScreenOCR works like a lightweight screenshot utility, which makes things quite easy. You can either hit a hotkey or select an option, after right clicking a system tray icon, after which you have to draw a rectangle over the text you wish to capture, as if you were taking a screenshot.

In fact, the application actually takes a snapshot of the selected area of the screen, after which it displays it on a small panel, in the lower right corner of the screen. At this point, you only need to click a button and the software will start extracting the text from that picture right away. The extracted text is displayed immediately on the same panel, on a different tab, after which you can edit it, copy it and so on.

A few useful options can be found in a Preferences panel, which is accessible through the same system tray icon. Besides setting up a different hotkey, you can also set EasyScreenOCR to save the images you capture, in a format of your choice and save a PDF as well.

The best part about EasyScreenOCR is that it is capable of extracting text quite fast. Also, accuracy is another thing you can expect. As long as you capture something at a decent resolution, the extracted text will have next to no typos.

Any text you see on your screen can be turned into editable text at a moment's notice, thank to EasyScreenOCR's smart and efficient functionality.