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Capture2Text

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Capture2Text Readme

Capture2Text enables users to quickly OCR a portion of the screen using a keyboard shortcut.

For more information visit: http://capture2text.sourceforge.net/

Version History:

[Version 4.6.3 (3-18-2022)]

  • Ticket #147: Possible fix to prevent capture box and preview from being displayed beneath other windows, especially after running for long periods of time or returning from sleep.
  • Improved the quality of the Text Line Capture feature, especially in the case were the last character is close to the boundary of a speech bubble which is itself close to some kind of high contrast foreground element.
  • Ticket #173: Fixed "${timestamp}" format option not working.
  • Ticket #182: Added tooltip to the tray icon.
  • Ticket #179: Replace Unicode single quote (’) with an ASCII single quote ('). Also replace (“) and (”) with (").
  • Ticket #163: Added note to the Hotkeys settings page regarding the proper method to disable hotkeys.
  • Ticket #175: BOM is no longer added to text files that are output by Capture2Text.
  • Ticket #162: Updated copyright date in the About dialog.

[Version 4.6.2 (8-10-2019)]

  • Ticket #49, #72: Fix error when using CLI to OCR 8 bpp images.
  • Ticket #76: Fix "\u200C" character being added when replacing ligatures.
  • Ticket #68: Fix typo in About dialog.
  • Fix typo: "Keep lines breaks" -> "Keep line breaks".

[Version 4.6.1 (7-3-2019)]

  • Ticket #97: Fixed issue where hex characters were appended to the translation.

[Version 4.6.0 (4-21-2018)]

  • Ticket #48: \t, \r, and \n can now be used in the "Replace with" column.
  • Ticket #43: Replace nuisance ligatures (fi, fl).
  • Ticket #30: Non-32bpp images now supported in CLI. Note: 1bpp images will not be pre-processed.
  • Added "Settings > Output > Call Executable" option.
  • In Settings dialog, show tab menu as a list box.

[Version 4.5.1 (11-4-2017)]

  • Ticket #27: Fixed text-to-speech feature not working due to missing qtexttospeech_sapi.dll.
  • Fixed bug that caused some save data to be stored in the registry.

[Version 4.5.0 (10-22-2017)]

  • Ticket #26: Added text-to-speech feature.
  • Ticket #23: Added "scale factor" option to CLI and Settings dialog.
  • Ticket #21: Fixed occasional column merge issue for Japanese vertical text.
  • Update to Tesseract 4.00alpha (Note: Capture2Text will continue to be packaged with legacy traineddata until newer LSTM fast/best traineddata is more mature)
  • Update to QT 5.9.2 and Leptonica 1.74.4.

[Version 4.4.0 (7-28-2017)]

  • Ticket #16: Fixed issue where only first line of multi-line capture was translated.
  • Ticket #14: Added CLI option --clipboard.
  • Ticket #13: You may now call Capture2Text.exe with the --portable option to place the .ini settings file in the same directory as the .exe.
  • Ticket #12: Added "Trim capture" option to the Setting dialog.
  • Ticket #12: Added CLI option --trim-capture.
  • Added CLI option --deskew.

[Version 4.3.0 (6-2-2017)]

  • Ticket #6: For CLI, output after each file is processed instead of outputting after all files have been processed.
  • Ticket #6: Added new CLI --output-format token: ${file}.
  • Ticket #5: Added CLI option --debug-timestamp.

[Version 4.2.0 (5-13-2017)]

  • Ticket #4: Added option to log captures to file.
  • Ticket #4: Added option to append timestamp to debug images.
  • Ticket #4: Added CLI options --output-file-append and --output-format.

[Version 4.1.0 (4-14-2017)]

  • Ticket #2: Fixed bug that caused CLI option "--screen-rect" to output an error.
  • Ticket #1: Added hotkey to toggle whitelist on/off. By default this hotkey is unmapped.
  • Ticket #1: Added hotkey to toggle blacklist on/off. By default this hotkey is unmapped.
  • Ticket #1: Added option to specify a Tesseract config file to both GUI and CLI.
  • Added whitelist and blacklist options to CLI.
  • Increased default lengths for text line captures.
  • Show help text when no options are provided to Capture2Text_CLI.exe.
  • Added suffix to some of spin boxes in the settings dialog.
  • Reduced border width in popup dialog.
  • Add version number to the .ini file.

[Version 4.0 (4-2-2017)]

  • Complete re-implementation in QT/C++.
  • Added Translation feature (powered by Google Translate).
  • Added Re-Capture Last hotkey.
  • Added Text Line Capture hotkey.
  • Added Forward Text Line Capture hotkey.
  • Added Bubble Capture hotkey.
  • Added more Preview position options.
  • Added blacklist setting.
  • Added "Reset to defaults" links in Settings dialog.
  • Capture Box and Preview Box may now have outlines.
  • Better interface for specifying hotkeys in the Settings dialog.
  • Custom tray icon "balloon" window.
  • Added "Replace" tab to the Settings dialog. Substitutions/Replacements are now stored in the settings .ini instead of substitutions.txt.
  • Added sample Capture Box to Settings dialog.
  • Added sample Preview box to Settings dialog.
  • Added deskew option.
  • Added debug options.
  • Popup dialog now enabled by default.
  • Size of Popup dialog is now saved automatically.
  • Added "Topmost" option to Popup dialog.
  • Added "Font" option to Popup dialog.
  • Removed the "Enable OCR pre-processing" option (now always enabled).
  • Removed the "Strip furigana" option (now always enabled).
  • Removed the "OCR method" option.
  • Removed "Prepended/Appended Text" setting.
  • Removed "Send to Cursor" setting.
  • Removed "Send to Control" setting.
  • "Preserve newline characters" setting renamed to "Keep linebreaks".
  • "Preferences" dialog renamed to "Settings".
  • Added to Capture2Text_CLI.exe for command line usage.
  • Settings .ini file now stored in %appdata%\Capture2Text.
  • Changed some of the hotkey defaults.
  • Added Russian and Korean to default package and removed Italian.
  • Added icons to some of the items in the tray menu.
  • Added more information in the About dialog.

[Version 3.9 (6-5-2016)]

  • Updated active selection corner logic. (Thanks R. Webster-Noble!).

[Version 3.8 (1-15-2016)]

  • Updated Tesseract (3.05.00dev).
  • Support for additional languages.
  • Added the "OCR Method" setting.
  • NHocr is no longer packaged (but may still be copied from previous versions to the Utils folder)

[Version 3.7 (7-04-2015)]

  • Text entered into the popup window will now be saved to the clipboard when the OK button is clicked and the Save to Clipboard option is checked.

[Version 3.6 (5-15-2015)]

  • Removed the experimental speech recognition feature due to new Google Speech API v2 quota restrictions.
  • Fixed DPI scale issue with the capture box. (Thanks rocker7!).
  • Now compiled with AutoHotkey 32-bit Unicode v1.1.22.00 (was v1.1.14.03).

[Version 3.5 (7-17-2014)]

  • Capture box should be less jumpy.
  • Preview will now only update when the user has stopped moving the capture box for at least 400 milliseconds.
  • When preview is setting to "Dynamic", the positioning should be less jumpy.

[Version 3.4 (7-10-2014)]

  • Added option to strip furigana from Japanese text.
  • Added the "Auto" choice to the "Text direction" preference.
  • Removed the option to toggle "OCR pre-processing" from the Preferences. It may still be edited in settings.ini.
  • Changed the default "OCR pre-processing" hotkey to Shift-Ctrl-Windows-B.

[Version 3.3 (3-2-2014)]

  • More minor tweaks to the Preferences dialog.

[Version 3.2 (3-1-2014)]

  • Minor tweaks to the Preferences dialog.

[Version 3.1 (2-28-2014)]

  • Improved OCR accuracy through use of better image pre-preprocessing (leptonica_util).
  • Now supports text and backgrounds of any color when OCR pre-processing is enabled. (In the previous version, only dark text on a light background was supported).
  • Added option to place the preview text beside the capture box.
  • Japanese (Tesseract) accuracy is now vastly improved through use of a Japanese-specific Tesseract config file. Also using this config file with Chinese (Tesseract).
  • Using Tesseract v3.02.02 for Japanese (was v3.01).
  • Replaced the binarize option with the OCR pre-processing option.
  • Removed "Send to Control" from the right-click menu.
  • Removed the Chinese (NHocr) language pack from default distribution. (You can still download it from https://code.google.com/p/nhocr/downloads/list).
  • Added the Italian language pack to the default distribution.
  • Removed setting of PreviewRemoveCaptureBox from the GUI.
  • Removed ConvertImageFormat (replaced with leptonica_util).
  • Now compiled with AutoHotkey 32-bit Unicode v1.1.14.03 (was v1.1.11.01).

[Version 3.0 (8-27-2013)]

  • Added option to binarize captured image before sending it to the OCR engine.

[Version 2.5 (7-5-2013)]

  • Updated NHocr from v0.20 to v0.21.
  • Now compiled with Ahk2Exe v1.1.11.01 instead of v1.1.05.06.

[Version 2.4 (12-29-2012)]

  • Added support for Arabic, Danish (Alternate), Esperanto (Alternate), German (Alternate) and Slovakian (Alternate).

[Version 2.3 (11-9-2012)]

  • Added option to remove the capture box before a preview OCR. This is more accurate, particularly with NHocr, but causes the capture box to flicker.
  • Changed the default image scale factor from 300% to 320% to meet Tesseract's minimum recommended DPI.
  • When using Japanese, revert to Tesseract v3.01. It is MUCH more accurate than v3.02.02.
  • Now passing a .ppm image to NHocr instead of a .pgm image to better handle non-grayscale captures.
  • Increased update rate of the capture box to make it appear more fluid.
  • Fixed text direction being ignored bug for Chinese/Japanese that was introduced in v2.2.
  • Fixed bug that caused the capture box to stick around after it was supposed to be removed.

[Version 2.2 (11-4-2012)]

[Version 2.1 (10-7-2012)]

  • Added the substitutions feature.
  • Added command line options.

[Version 2.0 (3-10-2012)]

  • Added the Preferences dialog. No more editing settings.ini by hand.
  • The popup window is now multi-lined.
  • Added option to preserve newline characters.
  • Limited preview to 150 characters. A trailing "..." will appear if necessary.
  • Added Speech Recognition Language option to right-click menu.
  • Cleaned up the right-click menu.
  • On the first run, inform user how to access the Preferences dialog.

[Version 1.10a (2-18-2012)]

  • Removed GdiPlus.dll from distribution.

[Version 1.10 (12-31-2011)]

  • Added preview box (and corresponding settings)

[Version 1.09 (11-10-2011)]

  • Fixed speech recording stopping in the middle of a sentence.
  • Fixed VoiceMaxResults not working correctly. Also increased to 9 as default.

[Version 1.08 (11-06-2011)]

  • Upgraded Tesseract to version 3.01 (it has better vertical text support and doesn't ignore small captures as much)
  • When using Tesseract Chinese or Japanese, you can now select the text direction (vertical or horizontal). To support this, added TextDirectionToggleKey and textDirection to settings.ini.
  • Changed default for ScaleFactor from 4.0 to 3.0 in settings.ini.
  • Changed menu text for Chinese and Japanese to reflect the OCR engine being used.

[Version 1.07 (11-05-2011)]

  • Added voice recognition support via unofficial Google voice recognition service
  • Added the "Send To Cursor" option to menu. The setting.ini file includes: SendToCursor SendToCursorApplyBeforeAndAfterCommands
  • Renamed OCRAdjustment to OCRSpecific in settings.ini
  • Moved the CaptureBox section in settings.ini to the OCRSpecific section
  • Added VoiceSpecific to settings.ini. Section includes: VoiceMaxResults VoiceResultsWindowWidth VoiceResultsWindowFont VoiceResultsWindowFontSize VoiceSilenceBeforeStop VoiceLanguage
  • Added StartVoiceCapture to Hotkey section in settings.ini
  • Added VoiceLanguageToggleKey to Hotkey section in settings.ini
  • Removed scaleFilter from settings.ini
  • Removed the scaleFactor option from the menu (it's still in settings.ini)

[Version 1.06 (12-12-2010)]

  • Added language quick access keys.
  • For Chinese and Japanese delete newlines. For other languages replace newlines with spaces.

[Version 1.05 (12-04-2010)]

  • Fixed issue where the checkboxes in the language menu wouldn't disappear.

[Version 1.04 (12-04-2010)]

  • Added ability to move the capture box by right-clicking
  • Added languages supported by the Tesseract OCR tool
  • Created a right-click menu that allow the user to select language, output type, capture box settings and scale factor
  • Removed unnecessary items from settings.ini

[Version 1.03 (11-27-2010)]

  • Added ability to change dictionary when the Dictionary setting in settings.ini
  • Added Chinese dictionary

[Version 1.02 (11-27-2010)]

  • Changed CaptureKey to StartAndEndCaptureKey in settings.ini
  • Added EndOnlyCaptureKey to settings.ini
  • Added ToggleActiveCaptureCornerKey to setting.ini

[Version 1.01 (11-27-2010)]

  • Added ReplaceControlText to settings.ini
  • Added ability to use linefeeds, carriage returns and tabs in PrependText and AppendText
  • Added an "About" item to the tray menu.
  • Removed the capture box showing up in the taskbar
  • Removed the PassThruKey settings in settings.ini. They are no longer needed.
  • Changed the tray tooltip text
  • Cleaned up code and put the ScreenCapture routines in a separate file

[Version 1.00 (11-26-2010)]

  • Initial version