What is Screen OCR?
Screen OCR software enables you to capture screenshots or images containing text from your computer screen and extract the actual text using optical character recognition (OCR) technology. This allows you to convert text found in images, such as scanned documents, screenshots, photos, PDF files, and more into editable and searchable text content.
Some key features of quality screen OCR software include:
- Ability to take screenshots or snip images directly from your screen and convert to text.
- OCR functionality to recognize text in over 100 languages.
- Options to edit and export the converted text to formats like Word, Excel, text files, etc.
- Built-in screen annotation and capture tools.
- OCR accuracy rates exceeding over 98% for clean images.
- Text-to-speech functionality to read the recognized text aloud.
- Support for image pre-processing features like de-skewing.
Leading screen OCR solutions provide a convenient way to extract text from screenshots, images, PDF files, scanned documents, presentations, signage, and more for reuse while eliminating the need to manually type out the text. The converted text can then be edited if needed and integrated into other documents or applications.
Adobe Acrobat DC, Greenshot, Snagit, CamScanner, Spectacle, ABBYY FineReader PDF, Microsoft Lens, Capture2text, Crow Translate, GImageReader, Screenshot to Speech, NormCap, OpenScan, SysExporter are some alternatives to Screen OCR.