Grab Text 5.2 is a System Utility product from grabtext.com, get 5 Stars SoftSea Rating, Grab Text is is an interesting text recognition and copying utility. Perhaps youve noticed that sometimes when you try to copy a text from a website or from different system windows, the text that you have seen is not the same with the one paste on your working sheet. Or, that text cannot be copied no matter what.
Well, Grab Text helps you copy and edit such texts. The software has no graphical user interface. When running, you will find the software icon in your traybar. Right clicking on it will display the text selection modes. After you find the text that you want to copy, click on Grab Text icon and choose the appropriate copy format (text/graphics of rectangle, text/graphics of active window). Select the text and a pop-up will appear featuring the copy functions. The text will be on your clipboard. Just paste it in any text editor or image editor.
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Drawbacks/flaws: A little bit expensive compared to other similar software.
In conclusion: It does to job, but i find it kind of expensive compared to what its designed to do.
Have you noticed that what we perceive as text can be virtually anything in computers world? There are text symbols displayed using various fonts, images depicting single characters, words, phrases or even paragraphs of text and dialog windows that display some text that cannot be copied. If we only need to view messages written using these techniques - it is OK: our eyes do the job well. When you need to copy or edit it - Grab Text is for you!
GrabText operates as a character recognition module. After integrating with your Windows system GrabText displays an icon in TaskTray notifications area. Right-clicking the icon brings up the Screen Capture menu. From this menu you can select whether the software should recognize characters from a window under cursor or using selection rectangle, whether it should interpret text only or text and graphics altogether. Left-clicking the icon changes your cursor which means you are ready to go.
Text capture module accepts information from dialogboxes, messages, HTML, PDF, graphics, and even 3D. Once you have selected the desired object for character recognition, GrabText starts recognizing text using its font samples database. Depending on system configuration, it takes about one or two seconds to get the job done! Afterwards, you can copy the captured text to clipboard as plain text or rich text format (RTF). Screen Capture tool can even append text captured to current clipboard contents. The license of this windows utility software is shareware, the price is $29.95, you can free download and get a free trial before you buy. If you want to get a full or nolimited version of Grab Text, you can buy this windows utility software.