Screenshot Character Recognizer can be used to recognize screen characters and save them to Text document which can be edited freely. It supports to select the area where regular copying and pasting cannot work such as folder trees, error messages, status bars, protected documents, buttons, etc. The most important, the application can recognize many kinds of different languages with the best OCR (Optical Character Recognition) technology in the market.

The application is free to download and it is used for evaluation. After evaluating the trial version, you can buy a registration key for the application to get the full function. It is for the single-user personal license. Single-user commercial license, multi-user personal license, multi-user commercial license and site license are available to be purchased at this website. You can choose anyone according to your needs.

You can get some acquaintance of the application from Figure1. The main interface window form of the application is showed in Figure1. Only three buttons and a combo box make the interface clear and easy to understand. Of course, you should choose the related language to be recognized on the screen in “Language” combo box. If you want to choose other kinds of languages, please click “more” in the combo box to download the language packages online.

To recognize screen characters, please click "Capture" button. Then you will see a prompt in the left corner of the screen. Please follow the methods given in the prompt to press the left button of the mouse and draw a rectangle to frame the area you want. Then right click the mouse or hit "Esc" button on the keyboard to complete drawing. Please click "OCR" button below the rectangle and you will see the next window of Screenshot Character Recognizer. Please see it in Figure2.

On the left of the window, you can see an image preview area, in which the captured screenshot can be zoomed in, zoomed out, rotate or reversed by the buttons above the area. You can also see the recognized characters in the blank on the right. They can be saved as Text document by clicking on “Save” or “Save as” button above them.