ABBYY Screenshot Reader!

Greenshot is a light-weight screenshot tool optimized for productivity with Optical Character Recognition (OCR) support. Save a screenshot or a part of the screen to a file within a second or load it up to an Internet-picture-storage and get a public accessible URL (Confluence, Box.com, Dropbox, Flick, Imgur without/with password, JIRA, Picasa-Web). Export to Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, Powerpoint, Outlook) or an "external command" (self defined). Apply text and shapes to the screenshot. Offers capture of window, region or full screenshot. Supports several image formats. Low demand of space on harddisk: 1289 kB; 32 supported languages. »

ShareX is a free and open source program that lets you capture or record any area of your screen and share it with a single press of a key. It also allows uploading images, text or other types of files to over 80 supported destinations you can choose from.

ABBYY FineReader is an optical character recognition (OCR) software that provides unmatched text recognition accuracy and conversion capabilities, virtually eliminating retyping and reformatting of documents. Intuitive use and one-click automated tasks let you do more in fewer steps. Up to 190 languages are supported for text recognition — more than any other OCR software in this market.

Capture2Text enables users to do the following:

Have you ever wanted to copy some text from a dialogue box which doesn’t provide such functionality?Textify was created to solve this problem: you can point your mouse over the text, click on the mouse shortcut (Shift + Middle click by default), and get a selectable view of the text.The tool can be launched with a hidden window by using the -hidewnd command line switch.

GetWindowText is a very small and portable program with which you can read the window text.

Hotshots is a screenshot tool with some editing features. It is particularly suitable for writing documentation (as used in the following chapters) but you can use it to highlight some details on a map image or what ever you want.Because HotShots is written with Qt, it runs on Windows and Linux (MacOSX isn't tested yet).Why this name, Hotshots ? Firstly, I'm a fan of Jim Abrahams's film and my second choice was Screen'n Shot but I'm not sure the pun will be perenne.

img2txt.com is an online OCR service that allows you to get text from a picture or scanned page.

Extract & translate text from images/videos/PDF on any website.

Complete suite for document Scanning.Any source: scanners, multifunction printers, e-mails, fax machines, web services or folders.Automatic document classificationData entry with assisted auto fields.Extract text from PDF Files and convert to indexed data.Export data to any ODBC-compatible database.Upload documents to the Cloud.Export documents & data to your CRM/ERP.Zonal OCR, for automatic forms processing.Multilanguage OCR with full international character support.

This text to speech application is useful for your computer to read pdfs, scanned images or even kindle books.

WatchOCR is an open source OCR server that creates searchable pdfs from images in a watched folder.

Boxoft Screen OCR is fast and easy-to-use software which helps to extract any area on your screen, recognize every character and then save as TXT file. Price: 27 USD. The smart tool enables you to select text from anywhere on the screen, including areas that you cannot highlight with your mouse, such as dialog boxes, protected Web pages, PDF files, error messages and so on.

Apparently JOCR requires Microsoft Office 2003 or 2007 and won't work with Office 2010 (unless you also have an older version and do some tweaking). [1]