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Capture2Text
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Free and GPL licensed · Windows desktop tool · No installation required
Read 11 Oct 2026 · capture2text.sourceforge.net
On the record
- Automation
- A command-line program can OCR image files or a screen rectangle and send output to a file or standard output.capture2text.sourceforge.net · read 11 Oct 2026
- Supported inputs
- imagecapture2text.org · read 22 Sep 2026
- Integrations
- The project page lists Google Translate support, and the manual describes an option to call an executable after OCR completes.sourceforge.net · read 11 Oct 2026
- Language controls
- For Chinese and Japanese, users can choose vertical, horizontal, or automatic text orientation, and the manual says Japanese capture attempts to strip furigana.capture2text.sourceforge.net · read 11 Oct 2026
- Languages
- The manual lists more than 90 supported OCR languages; English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Russian, and Spanish are included by default.sourceforge.net · read 11 Oct 2026
- License
- The project is free and licensed under the GNU General Public License; SourceForge specifies GPLv3.sourceforge.net · read 11 Oct 2026
- Notable limit
- The manual says translation is unavailable for some OCR languages, which are omitted from the translation options.capture2text.sourceforge.net · read 11 Oct 2026
- OCR modes
- It supports standard screen captures, automatic text-line capture, forward text-line capture, and capture of text inside an enclosed comic speech or thought bubble.capture2text.sourceforge.net · read 11 Oct 2026
- Platform
- The maker's manual lists Windows 7, Windows 8/8.1, and Windows 10 as supported operating systems.capture2text.sourceforge.net · read 11 Oct 2026
- Portability
- Capture2Text runs without installation: unzip the package and launch Capture2Text.exe.capture2text.sourceforge.net · read 11 Oct 2026
- Privacy
- The manual specifies that translation requires internet access; the project page does not state an overall security certification or compliance standard.capture2text.sourceforge.net · read 11 Oct 2026
- Text to speech
- The manual describes text-to-speech controls for voice, rate, pitch, and volume by OCR language.capture2text.sourceforge.net · read 11 Oct 2026
- Translation
- Capture2Text can append translations to the clipboard or show them beside OCR text in a popup, but translation requires internet access and some OCR languages are unsupported.capture2text.sourceforge.net · read 11 Oct 2026
- What it does
- Capture2Text uses a keyboard shortcut to OCR part of the screen and saves the resulting text to the clipboard by default.capture2text.sourceforge.net · read 11 Oct 2026
