光学字符识别 (OCR)(Optical Character Recognition (OCR))正逐渐成为任何操作系统环境中必不可少的元素。OCR经历了时代的流线化，已成为我们许多人在日常活动中使用的主流功能。对于Windows 10，我们也有很多软件可以将图像快速转换为文本。今天我们将回顾Capture2Text这是一个免费赠品，您可以使用它使用键盘快捷键快速 OCR 屏幕的一部分。
Capture2Text – 从图像中复制文本
Capture2Text是一款适用于(Capture2Text)Windows的免费软件，可让您从图像中提取和复制文本并将其保存到剪贴板(Clipboard)。它使 OCR 屏幕的一部分变得非常容易，并自动将图像中的文本复制到剪贴板。要捕获所需部分，您可以点击默认键盘快捷键(WinKey + Q)并选择该部分。除了识别和转换为文本外，它还支持在谷歌翻译(Google Translate)的帮助下翻译成其他语言。它支持近 100 种语言，并且可以识别用这些语言编写的任何文本。但是，默认情况下，它包含以下语言：英语、法语、德语、日语、韩语、俄语和西班牙语(English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Russian, and Spanish)。
如何使用 Capture2Text(How to use Capture2Text)
Capture2Text就像从原木上掉下来一样容易。您只需要下载压缩的 zip 文件，然后将内容解压缩到本地存储中。双击Capture2Text.exe，如果您是第一次在计算机上运行它，它应该会显示下图。
由于它是基于键盘快捷键的工具，因此您不需要任何特定的 UI 即可启动。它会隐藏在任务栏上的“快速启动(Quick Launch)”工具栏下。您可以从那里启动其设置并调整其他选项。
按照以下步骤将屏幕的任何部分转换为文本：
1. 一旦你启动了Capture2Text的可执行文件，默认的键盘快捷键 ( WinKey + Q ) 就会被激活。然后，您可以将光标指向您要选择的部分的左上角。
2. 点击热键组合并通过将鼠标光标移到要OCR的文本上来开始选择屏幕的所需部分。您甚至可以使用右键单击鼠标按钮并将部分框拖动到所需文本上来在屏幕窗口周围移动蓝色框。
3. 要完成部分选择，请按Enter或只需按下鼠标左键。所选部分中的文本将被识别并出现一个弹出窗口，该弹出窗口将显示捕获的文本，同时将其复制到剪贴板中。
免费工具还为OCR 捕获(OCR Capture)提供各种其他选项（文本行 OCR 捕获(Text Line OCR Capture)、转发文本行 OCR 捕获(Forward Text Line OCR Capture)、气泡 OCR 捕获(Bubble OCR Capture)等），它会根据您选择的热键操作自动捕获一行文本。
调整设置(Tweak the Settings)
您可以从Capture2Text设置页面更改活动的OCR 语言(OCR Language)并调整其他设置。转到快速启动工具栏(Quick Launch toolbar)并右键单击应用程序图标。
您可以打开/关闭将文本保存到剪贴板或显示弹出窗口的选项。要更改活动的OCR语言，请在(OCR)OCR 语言(OCR Language)菜单下选择所需的条目。此外，您可以强化文本方向设置，以使其严格保持水平/垂直。
对于更多不同的选项，您可以单击打开设置(Settings)窗口的设置。以下是这里提供的众多选项中的几个：
- 更改为不同OCR捕获方案分配的键盘快捷键。
- 调整与捕获框和预览窗口相关的设置背景/边框/文本颜色设置。
- 选择系统在显示输出时的行为方式。
- 选择(Choose)直接由Google 翻译(Google Translate)提供支持的翻译选项。
包起来(Wrapping Up)
好吧，这就是这个简单方便的工具。您可以访问官方网站(official site)下载它并了解如何使用它的更多信息。该工具也可以从命令行工作。
Windows 10 照片扫描应用程序、JOCR、Gttext 是类似的工具，可以帮助您从图像中提取文本并将其复制到 Word 或记事本。(Windows 10 Photo Scan app, JOCR, Gttext are similar tools that can help you extract text from images and copy them to Word or Notepad.)
Capture2Text: OCR a portion of the screen & copy Text from Image
Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is gradually becoming an essential element in any operating system environment. Streamlined through the age that it has lived, OCR has become a mainstream feature that many of us put to use through our day-to-day activities. For Windows 10 as well, we have a lot of software available which does the swift conversion from image to text. Today we are going to review Capture2Text which is a freebie that you can use to quickly OCR a portion of the screen using the keyboard shortcuts.
Capture2Text – Copy text from image
Capture2Text is a free software for Windows that lets you extract and copy text from images and save it to the Clipboard. It makes it ultra-easy to OCR a portion of the screen and automatically copies the text in an image to the clipboard. To capture the desired portion, you can hit the default keyboard shortcut (WinKey + Q) and select the portion. Apart from recognition and conversion to text, it also supports translation to other languages, with help of Google Translate. It supports almost 100 languages and can recognize any text written in these languages. However, by default it comes packed with the following languages: English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Russian, and Spanish.
How to use Capture2Text
Capture2Text is as easy as falling off a log. You just need to download the compressed zip file and then unzip the contents on your local storage. Double-click on Capture2Text.exe and it should greet you with the below image in case you’re running it for the first time on your computer.
As it is a keyboard shortcut based tool, you don’t need any specific UI to launch. It will bury itself under Quick Launch toolbar on the taskbar. You can launch its settings and tweak other options from there.
Follow the below steps to convert any portion of the screen to text:
1. Once you have launched the executable file for Capture2Text, the default keyboard shortcut (WinKey + Q) gets activated. You can then point the cursor to the top-left position of the portion that you want to select.
2. Hit the hotkey combination and start selecting the desired portion of the screen by moving the mouse cursor over the text that you want to OCR. You can even move the blue box around the screen window by using right-click mouse button and dragging the portion box over the desired text.
3. In order to complete the portion selection, hit Enter or just press the left-click mouse button. The text within the selected portion will be recognized and a popup will appear which will show the captured text while copying the same in the clipboard.
The free tool also offers various other options for OCR Capture as well (Text Line OCR Capture, Forward Text Line OCR Capture, Bubble OCR Capture etc.) which automatically captures a line of text based on the hotkey operation that you select.
Tweak the Settings
You can change the active OCR Language and adjust other settings from the Capture2Text settings page. Go to Quick Launch toolbar and right-click the application icon.
You can turn on/off the options to save the text to the clipboard or show the popup window. For changing the active OCR language, select the desired entry under OCR Language menu. Also, you can harden the text orientation settings in order to keep it strictly horizontal/vertical.
For more diverse options, you can click on Settings which opens the settings window. Below are the few of many options available in here:
- Change the assigned keyboard shortcuts for different OCR capture schemes.
- Tweak the settings background/border/text color settings related to the capture box and preview window.
- Choose how the system behaves with the output presented.
- Choose translation options that are powered directly by Google Translate.
Wrapping Up
Well, that’s pretty much about this easy and handy tool. You can visit the official site to download it and for more insights on how to use it. The tool also works from the command line.
Windows 10 Photo Scan app, JOCR, Gttext are similar tools that can help you extract text from images and copy them to Word or Notepad.
