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• Anonymous commented  ·  July 22, 2011 06:48  ·  Delete

  I need screenshots to be able to be read

• HandyMac commented  ·  February 07, 2010 10:27  ·  Delete

  I wanted to get some text out of a book at Google Books. The first screen shot produced a poor result in VelOCRaptor, but after I enlarged the print several steps (which also required enlarging the Safari window), it worked well enough. I also tried saving the screen shot as a TIFF, but it didn't seem to work any better than the PNG I normally use.

  Offhand I can't think of another situation where I'd need to use a screen shot to get text, except Web pages like Google Books where the text can't be copied; but sure, I expect that as OCRopus gets smarter, VelOCRaptor should be able to work with more marginal input.

• mc23646266 commented  ·  December 10, 2009 18:34  ·  Delete

  are you using 10.6? if so, create a service(dienste) for ocr'ing screengrabs.
  i choose a shellscript for my solution, with 'sips' scaling the screenshots,
  to temporary 300dpi, reading once a pdf then reading a txt.
  the txt gives very varying results.
  some are excellent,
  some terrible.

• Jen Cluse commented  ·  June 30, 2009 05:35  ·  Delete

  Screen grabs sooooo useful (Sure, only at times, but there is nothing out there that can, yet. (SelectAll_Copy a Finder window gives you a text file of the file *names, but there are time where the dates are important, and I can see this cute raptor doing the job, one day.