Capturing text from Windows screen,
Editor: Screen OCR SDK is a programmers library that allows capturing text from Windows screen, under the control of another program. Use it to Capture text from any application that doesnt provide communication APIs in order to feed your program with text. It gives output as text, not graphics which allows further processing, such as Dictionary Lookup or passing to translation tools. Imagine: your customer captures any text on screen, even when copy/paste is not available, with a HotKey and with a mouse click your dictionary pops up with text already translated/explained.

You can capture text from any part of any window including: status bar messages, Windows error messages, proprietary DOS console programs, menus, any custom controls, etc. It uses OCR technology to Grab Text directly from the screen, without interaction with application internals.

Screen OCR SDK is OCR (Optical Character Recognition) based solution, which makes it work precisely and incredibly fast and allows capture text even if some custom fonts are used. Screen OCR SDK can be used in different types of software like automation software, dictionaries and translation tools, organizer applications, etc.

- Captures text from rectangle
- Captures word from point
- Captures whole window
- Interactive text capture (user can select area or point on screen and capture text from it)
- Unicode support


Recognizes text in any type of document (HTML, Word, Notepad, PDF, BMP or JPG image) or in any part of the screen and saves it to clipboard.

Grabs texts that cannot be saved or printed

Recognizes texts in any language that cannot be saved or printed

Works with all American and European character sets, including the Central-European and Cyrillic
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