Capture Text for Windows

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Download.com staffOctober 11, 2013

For a text-recognition utility, Capture Text consumes a surprisingly small amount of computer space and resources. The secret to its efficiency is that it builds its font database from fonts already found on your PC, precluding the need to download additional files. However, we didn't think the interface was very straightforward, and we found no help files, even on the developer's site. Capture Text also didn't work well in our testing, frequently skipping letters. The utility worked with text on sites and in dialog boxes, but it had problems recognizing colored text and couldn't cope with text in Flash animations or PDFs. On the bright side, the program did well when capturing simple screenshots. Nevertheless, we think it needs a lot of improvements to become a valid tool for copying text from any application.

Capture Text for Windows

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Full Specifications

GENERAL

Release: September 5, 2009

Latest update: October 11, 2013

Version: 5.7

OPERATING SYSTEMS

Platform: Windows

Operating System

Windows 10
Windows Vista
Windows NT
Windows 95
Windows 2000
Windows XP
Windows 98
Windows ME

Additional Requirements: Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003 server

POPULARITY

Total Downloads: 8,714

Downloads Last Week: 0

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User Reviews

1.8/5

4 User Votes

THIS DOES WORK - AT LEAST SINCE 2006!
SNUSAJanuary 3, 2011
Pros
Captures virtually anything "Windows Can't!"
Cons
Specialized tool with does one thing (well.) Not something you need everyday..... Should be a freeware version with limited capture ability, because once you begin using it, I'll bet you'd find other uses for it too!
Summary
Need to capture text that Windows can't copy and past? This is the tool!
Didn't Work
January 16, 2005
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Cons
Summary
It is a nice programme but it didn't work as I expected
Didn't work for me
August 5, 2004
Pros
Cons
Summary
It created text with lots of special characters that were not on the screen being captured. Would have required a massive clean up effort. Don't bother with this download.
scrolling
More JunkJune 9, 2004
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Summary
There does not appear to be any way to scroll through a whole website to capture the complete website. I could not get the Scroll (beta) to work. I am now going to uninstall it.

Developer’s Description

By Capture Text

Capture text from Web objects when conventional text selection and copying are disabled.