I emailed one of the authors, Jan Ringos to make sure his site didn't get hijacked or anything.  He said it should be safe to use.   So then I actually tried downloading it with Microsoft's Edge browser and it worked fine. This is the first time a Microsoft browser out-performed Google Chrome.  Just another example of how the world is upside-down in 2020.  LOL.  :P

http://capture2text.sourceforge.net/ is a pretty cool freeware tool.

-kunkel321 (July 06, 2016, 10:14 PM)

That is an awesome tool indeed! :Thmbsup:

-Ath (July 07, 2016, 02:02 AM)

And the CLI version makes is extremely easy to plugin to screenshot captor - I have it setup using the "Post capture options" & "external tools" options in SC- and I can pretty much create a "one click" workflow to extract text from screenshots !! (new ones and old..)

-ceebu (August 20, 2020, 05:02 AM)

Hi Ceebu, I saw your reply here and I'm wondering if you'd share your setup for sending screenshots from SSC to C2T...  I'm running both apps... I might as well have them setup like yours. 

EDIT:  It took a few tries but I think I got it working.  Setting it up as in the screenshot OCRs the text from the screenshot and sends it to the windows clipboard.



Not sure if I'm even using the sctools feature as Mouse had intended...  But my tools all seem to work as expected.

Hmm... Attached image doesn't seem to be working, so here
https://i.imgur.com/HGT74rJ.png

EDIT AGAIN..  The screenshot doesn't show it, but this is the normal exe file
not the Capture2Text_CLI.exe one. 
Here's the param box:

Also note, I'm using the portable version of Cap2Text as well as the portable version of ScreenshotCapture.

Regarding the ghost rectangle, I think I figured out what causes it...  My laptop has an external monitor that is larger than the monitor of the laptop.  Win 10 lets you define how they line up with each other (screenshot)
https://i.imgur.com/ALQochO.png

I had it so that the bottom edges were lined up.  Now it's changed so the tops are lined up as in the screenshot.   Like this, RR seemed to work as expected (see new gif). 

I think what happened is that some applications reference the location of the screen by comparing it with the top/left corner.  The top/left corner is x0,y0.  But if the other monitor is above this "y0" position, I think that certain apps get confused.  One of my favorite little apps is CrossHair by Mike Lin https://download.cnet.com/developer/mike-lin/i-6285142   It sometimes has the same problem if I'm in dual monitor mode.   

I'm not a programmer so I don't know if this is possible, but I think the solution might be to ensure that all of the graphics objects reference the x.y coordinates of monitor 1.  Make sure that none of them reference the coordinates of the "work space" or the "desktop area."  I don't know.... Like I said I'm not a programmer!   :D