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There are programs that does transfer text of a scanned paper to text. But if you just want to fast copy and paste what you see on your screen, there should be a tool that transfer text from the screen with border selection to clipboard.
Baked
http://capture2text.sourceforge.net/
What is Capture2Text? Allows the user to quickly snapshot a small portion of the screen, OCR it and (by default) save the result to the clipboard. [scad mientist, Apr 05 2015]
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In Windows you can take a snapshot of the active window
by pressing Alt-PrtScr (print-screen). You can then past
that into Paint and save it as a bitmap file. I think there
exist Optical Character Recognition programs that can pull
text from a bitmap file containing an image of text.... |
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Likewise on Macs, you can screenshot the whole
screen, the active window, or a selected area of the
screen - would this do what you wanted? |
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Usually I don't want to screen capture the whole screen. I want to get some lines of text to clipboard as if I would copy paste normally... |
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Ah - you mean you want character recognition on the
copied material? |
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One thing that I'd like to do, is to copy a player chat of one game, but it does not support copy and paste. I would copy that text on the fly to clipboard, and copy that text elsewhere. |
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Yes, the screen grab thing being suggested here notably fails to OCR the text to the clipboard without industrial faffing about. |
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There seems to be quite a bit on the 'net for "OCR cut and paste". |
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If the game has extra plugins or modifications then there may be some way to script the text out of the program. If it is Snapchat or one of those similar programs then you probably shouldn't be copying anything. If the need to copy is criminal or threatening then seek the appropriate help. |
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As FlyingToaster said, you can find many options
on Google. "screen capture with OCR" gave me
quite a few options I linked the first option since
it's free, open source and sounds like just what
you're looking for. |
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This does make me think about how this could be
very neatly integrated in the OS. For example,
currently when you cut and paste text from say
Word to Notepad, it pastes just find but of course
formatting is lost. If you copy an image, the paste
option in notepad is hidden. But why? The OS
could quite easily down-convert an image to text
if there is any text in the image. If you want to
paste just the text into word, use paste special
which could easily have an OCR text option added. |
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OCR is only needed if the image was not built by a program. Most likely the text is coded somewhere. Accessing the text codes is way less computationally taxing than the long way around of OCR. |
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