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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. »

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.

Screenshot Reader is a smart OCR-screenshot application for capturing text and images from any area on your PC screen and extracting text from them or just saving as an image. Prize: 9.99 USD.ABBYY Screenshot Reader creates copies of images which you can easily cut and paste from your clipboard to Microsoft® Word, Excel®, PowerPoint® or graphic files. You can use Screenshot Reader to select and copy pieces of text from images, flash files, PDFs, and other image-based files, and convert them into true text which you can edit or insert into another document. »

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

KanjiTomo is a OCR program for identifying Japanese text from images. It is optimized for accurate kanji recognition.

How often were you in the situation when you needed to save some data but wasnt able to do it because words or figures were protected by some script of just cannot be copied? Well, heres the tool that will help you to avoid all these problems and settle them once and for all. Capture Text recognizes any text that displayed on the screen and saves it to clipboard, so you can work with it.

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.

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

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]

Kleptomania lets you select text anywhere on the screen, including areas that you cannot highlight with your mouse, such as columns of data from a word processor or error messages from any Windows program.

Grabtxt is a simple utility that enables you to capture the text portions from many Windows dialog boxes. The captured text can be copied to the clipboard (Ctrl+C) or used to search for details via Google or bing.com with the provided shortcut buttons. The program can be useful if you need to copy an error message for a bug report or want to find out additional information via online search engines without having to manually type the text. Grabtxt currently work with most, but not all, Windows dialogs. »

CleanShot is a portable Windows app for taking screenshots, recording videos, and more.

This is a default screenshot app for Linux Deepin.