Capture2Text

I've used this for years; if there is a better alternative, I don't know it. What I miss is the ability to add separate volume controls for different languages.

Is not working well for Chinese. No project activity for about 4 years so seems no hope for improvements. Nice idea, works reasonably well for ASCII text. No method to know which encoding the character was using after OCR, if just UTF-16 then character detection is not good. Similar issue was report long ago, still pending.

I use this app to capture dates from image-like PDFs, it saves me a lot of time to type those dates manually. I configured to fix captured dates with help of regular expressions in the configuration screen.

Created an entire account just to leave this review, I hope this thing works better for Latin letters but I used it to translate Japanese text and not once did it even detect the correct character, I assume this problem only gets worse in Chinese or Korean translations. If you're looking into this for a translation of any of the language mentioned, a blurry Google lens taking a picture of a screenshot through a monitor screen genuinely works 10 times better than this

Great