dpScreenOCR – software to recognize text on screen

dpScreenOCR is a program to recognize text on the screen.

Powered by Tesseract, it supports more than 100 languages and can split independent text blocks, such as columns.

This is free and open source software.

Key Features

• Easy to use.
• Split text blocks – split independent text blocks, such as columns. Otherwise, the text is treated as one continuous block.
• Option to copy text to the clipboard.
• Option to add text to history.
• Language manager – install, update, and remove languages.
• Run executable” action – run an executable with the recognized text as the first argument.
• Configurable hotkey support.
• High DPI support.
• System tray icon.
• Internationalization support.
• Cross-platform support – runs under Linux and Windows.

Website: danpla.github.io/dpscreenocr
Support: GitHub Code Repository
Developer: Daniel Plakhotich
License: zlib License

dpScreenOCR is written in C++. Learn C++ with our recommended free books and free tutorials.

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