Boxoft Screen OCR

A computer can be fitted with an impressive variety of tools, and extra components to transform it into the tool you need. Advancements in technology now allow facial recognition to help you reach the desktop, or even grab text from images with the help of applications like Boxoft Screen OCR.

With little time, and effort invested into the setup process, you get to take the application for a spin before you know it. The initial window helps you easily select the desired language to read to, configure a hotkey command to initiate character recognition, or handle a few other settings.

By default, the application can only recognize English text, but there are several more languages you can download in a short while. Since there’s the possibility to initiate capture through hotkeys, a cool advantage is the main window can be minimized to the tray area, so it doesn’t take any space where text can be.

The application can grab characters from any region on the screen, with no option to load pictures. The lack of an open function is not necessarily that much of an issue, because you can keep it visible, and only select a region of interest.

You’re free to configure the exact area where Boxoft Screen OCR to perform the read operation. It’s enough to drag a box around the target zone, with the possibility to modify it, and move it for fine adjustments.

It’s advisable to try and refine the capture zone as much as possible, because any visual element that gets in the way can be interpreted as a character, or mess up reading for actual letters. Detection ration leaves a bit more to be desired, and you might want to use clean regions, with readable text for better chances of success.

The capture region is brought up for close inspection once reading is done. A related panel shows grabbed text, with the possibility to modify any mistakes on the spot. Saving is only done to a plain text file. It’s possible to revisit history of all grabbed pictures, in case you need a particular text string again.

Taking everything into consideration, we can say that Boxoft Screen OCR wants to help you transform nearly all visible text on your screen into readable characters, which you can then save to file. It’s easy to trigger thanks to hotkey support. Although the algorithm used isn’t perfect, it’s sure to be accurate if used in a clean environment.