Kleptomania!

Kleptomania uses **Optical Character Recognition (OCR** technology to let you capture image from anywhere on the screen and then convert this image to text. This includes database lists, forms and reports, error messages, dialog boxes, status lines, folder trees and file lists. Kleptomania keeps track of all of your Windows fonts. It can convert to text all areas of your screen. The program can recognize underlined text including web and e-mail addresses. It works well for lines of text containing mixed fonts, font sizes, styles, and colors. Kleptomania can place the captured text onto the clipboard as plain text or Rich Text Format (RTF. You can copy and paste text into any editor or word processor, sum numbers in a column of copied data, count the number of words and characters that you'

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