SnipCopy is inexpensive and leverages Tesseract - a leading tool in Optical Character Recognition (OCR). SnipCopy was built for Windows
Also available as a free app on Apple AppStore
SnipCopy makes it easy to extract printed text from any document, image, or other content on your computer screen.
In this example, SnipCopy is pulling text from a scanned copy of Dracula.
SnipCopy also supports a variety of language packages to pull from most character sets and languages.
In this image, SnipCopy is pulling the text off a picture of a German receipt.
Getting SnipCopy setup requires having Tesseract installed - but once you're configured, using SnipCopy is simple and fast. Follow the steps below or watch this video.
Download either the 30-Day Trial or Full Edition of SnipCopy.
Place the SnipCopy download anywhere on your computer. To create a shortcut, right-click on the downloaded file in Windows Explorer and "Send To>Desktop (Create Shortcut)".
Download the Tesseract OCR engine here. Follow the installer prompts and make sure your Tesseract destination folder is "C:\Program Files\Tesseract-OCR".
SnipCopy supports many languages, but the default Tesseract install only includes English. If you want to use other languages, please find the complete language list HERE. Purchasing a full license entitles you to all future releases of this SnipCopy.
Start SnipCopy and start extracting text! You can press the "Snip" button or "CTRL+SHIFT+C". The extracted text will output in SnipCopy and copy directly to your clipboard so than you can paste the extracted text.