Eye

Eye is a small software application developed specifically for helping you make use of the OCR (Optical Character Recognition) technique in order to extract text messages from images. The tool can be deployed on all Windows versions out there, provided that you have the Java working platform installed on the target PC.

The utility is portable which means that you do not have to follow the predefined steps embedded in an installation process to open its GUI. A double-click on the executable file does the trick.

What’s more, you can opt for keeping Eye on pen drives or other similar devices so you can take it with everywhere you go. No administrative privileges need to be enabled when you run the program. Plus, you can open it directly from the storage device on the host PC.

It’s easy to get rid of it if you do not use it anymore. You need to delete the files that you have downloaded from the Internet. It does not leave remnants in your Windows registry.

Eye sports a simple design that allows you to import images in the working environment using only the built-in browse button (the drag-and-drop support is not implemented). You only need to add the target picture, and the tool automatically extracts the text messages and reveals them in the main window.

What’s more, you are allowed to copy the recognized text to the clipboard so you can paste it into other windows, preview images in the main panel, as well as create a custom photo with a user-defined text message and alter the text in terms of font and size.

To sum things up, Eye comes bundled with several handy and simple features for helping you identify text stored within custom photos.