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- Quick specs
- Price: Free to try (21-day trial); $29.95 to buy
- Operating system: Windows 95/98/Me/2000/XP/NT
- Date added: June 16, 2004
- Total Downloads: 55,675
- Downloads last week: 110
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 9 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
This program expands the powers of your PC's built-in copy command. Screen OCR can copy text from many locations that are inaccessible to the Windows Clipboard, including dialogue boxes and protected Web pages. All settings are available via the system-tray icon, which lets you select a color for highlighted text and choose how you want the text-selection tool to behave. For example, you can make it act just like the function built into Windows, or you can have it copy items in a rectangular box. Additionally, Screen OCR can copy graphics or certain areas of your screen and display statistics, such as word count and font style once you've highlighted text. Our only complaint with performance was the program failed to work when we tried to copy information from a PDF file. Still, this utility makes a valuable tool for any user who needs more control over the standard copy-and-paste process.Publisher's description
From ScreenOCR.com :Screen OCR recognizes any text visible in any place of the screen. All you have to do is to choose the proper selection mode, select the data, and copy it to the Clipboard. People who work with data that cannot be saved or printed will like the program. Screen OCR saves everything you can see on the screen and does it with astonishing accuracy, whether it's an image, scanned text, PDF, or HTML. Web designers, analysts, or interpreters also can use it. You can use Screen OCR in any way you are most comfortable with. It can be window selection, scrolling capture, simple cursor capture, or rectangular selection. It recognizes Internet Explorer windows, PDFs, pictures--anything you can read with your eyes.
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User reviews of Screen OCR 2.8
- Average user rating: 1.8 stars out of 9 votes
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3 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: Screen OCR 2.8
Pros: None. It doesn't do what it says it will do.
Cons: Any text you select, under any of the options, will have gaps where the program just chooses not to recognize the text. This can happen with a plain white background and very clear text. Plus, Adaware immediately reports several attempts at placing tracking cookies and other spyware activities, each time you open the program.
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Version: Screen OCR 2.8
Cons: This program doesn't work at all. I made a try scanning from real text, from the program's Help System, and all I got was characters like this:
:. . - tu - t o -.:`. . :: -.ú-:. .: - , -. , :, :: . , - `i` - |`i: : :::' -i-: ::D -,i:: : :: : ::D
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Version: Screen OCR 2.8
"Dreadful Spyware--don't bother!"
Pros: Nothing. It doesn't even work well as an OCR program.
Cons: Pops up constant windows to "vote" for features, is an obvious spyware/data-gathering thing--avoid this one! It barely does even the most basic OCR functions. Even for free, this isn't worthwhile.
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Version: Screen OCR 2.8
Pros: Work ok with the text displayed in Windows menu, system screen. Easy and friendly interface.
Cons: Do extremely poor OCR job. It cannot even recognise the plain text on a 150 dpi black and white, Arial-font and clean (no graphic and heavy text formatting) document. 0% accuracy.
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Screen OCR 2.8
"BEWARE! - The software collects information from your comptuer!"
Summary: I had two issues with this sofware:
1. Very poor recognition quality. Basically unusable for me.
2. They collect personal information from your computer. For example, I gave them my web email address and later found that th... read more >> - See all 8 user reviews Write review
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