Capture2Text
The facts below are what the maker publishes about Capture2Text, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From Capture2Text's own pricing page, checked 11 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | Free and GPL licensed · Windows desktop tool · No installation required |
The facts
Each one read from Capture2Text's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Automation
- A command-line program can OCR image files or a screen rectangle and send output to a file or standard output.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- The project page lists Google Translate support, and the manual describes an option to call an executable after OCR completes.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Language controls
- For Chinese and Japanese, users can choose vertical, horizontal, or automatic text orientation, and the manual says Japanese capture attempts to strip furigana.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Languages
- The manual lists more than 90 supported OCR languages; English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Russian, and Spanish are included by default.checked 11 Oct 2026
- License
- The project is free and licensed under the GNU General Public License; SourceForge specifies GPLv3.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Notable limit
- The manual says translation is unavailable for some OCR languages, which are omitted from the translation options.checked 11 Oct 2026
- OCR modes
- It supports standard screen captures, automatic text-line capture, forward text-line capture, and capture of text inside an enclosed comic speech or thought bubble.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Portability
- Capture2Text runs without installation: unzip the package and launch Capture2Text.exe.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Privacy
- The manual specifies that translation requires internet access; the project page does not state an overall security certification or compliance standard.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Supported inputs
- imagechecked 22 Sep 2026
- Text to speech
- The manual describes text-to-speech controls for voice, rate, pitch, and volume by OCR language.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Translation
- Capture2Text can append translations to the clipboard or show them beside OCR text in a popup, but translation requires internet access and some OCR languages are unsupported.checked 11 Oct 2026
- What it does
- Capture2Text uses a keyboard shortcut to OCR part of the screen and saves the resulting text to the clipboard by default.checked 11 Oct 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
Where it runs
- Platform
- The maker's manual lists Windows 7, Windows 8/8.1, and Windows 10 as supported operating systems.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Primary platform
- desktopchecked 22 Sep 2026
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