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Capture texts and tables without retyping.
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Create “snapshots” of images and text from opened documents, file menus, Web pages, presentations, Flash-content, or PDF files with a few clicks. ABBYY Screenshot Reader turns text within any image captured from your screen into an editable format without retyping – making it easy to reuse in digital documents, emails or reports. It accommodates more than 180 languages with outstanding recognition accuracy.

- Is there a screenshot reader similar to ABBYY Screenshot Reader (you are just selecting area on the screen and getting text into the buffer, something like that)? How to take a screenshot on Mac while keeping the aspect ratio of the capture area. Quickly create screenshot, add border and cut & paste.
- How to grab text from the screenshot on Mac. What Easy Screen OCR Features. Equipped with powerful Google OCR engine, Easy Screen OCR can turn images into editable text with the highest accuracy. Best Text Scanner. Support screenshot OCR. No need to retype any text from images. Try this free OCR application to copy text.
- Skitch is How-To Geek’s go-to favorite screenshot app for macOS, and with good.
Easy to use
The program’s main screen allows to choose an area for the screenshot and an output format. Screenshot Reader can be set up to launch automatically at each start up and will be always by your hand.
Variety of saving formats
ABBYY Screenshot Reader lets you save image screenshots in JPEG, Bitmap or PNG formats. Text screenshots can be saved as editable texts in .RTF, .TXT, .DOC or .XLS formats.
ABBYY OCR technology
Powered by award winning ABBYY OCR (Optical Character Recognition) technology that turns paper documents and images into editable electronic formats with superior accuracy.
Capture screenshot images

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Capture an interesting part of the screen and save it as an image or share with your friends. Just mark certain part of the screen with ABBYY Screenshot Reader and send it as image by e-mail or by messenger or store it on your computer.
Insert a screen image in documents


Prepare small – size images for your presentations, reports and other documents. Open the image, create the screenshot, copy it to the clipboard and then insert into the document with CTRL+V keys or “paste” functions.
Transform screenshot images into text
If you want to grab some text from an image file, Web site, presentation, or PDF you can quickly turn text areas into truly editable text that you can paste directly into an open application, edit or save as Microsoft® Word or Excel® documents.
Extract text and tables
Extract text from brochures and leaflets that are only available as graphics: select a piece of text and it will automatically open as editable information in Microsoft Word. Transform image tables into editable Excel worksheets.
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Easily print driving directions
You are booking a room at a hotel or are going to a corporate event, but some of the arrival directions are only in flash and the other are sent in a separate e-mail. With Screenshot Reader, you can easily add all the necessary driving information into a Word document and then print it on single piece of paper.
Send a screenshot of an error message to the technical support

You need to explain a problem with your PC? Simply capture program’s messages and dialogues or system information and send it to the technical support by e-mail together with the explanations of the problem. It is a lot easier than remembering: “there is a problem with the .batix./320.dir file”.
Use screenshots to compile instructions and guides
Identify and manage company’s commitments across numerous paper and digital contracts and leases.
Save lists from a website into an Excel file
Learning foreign language and need to gather the words you study from a website into an Excel file? Let Screenshot Reader do the job, instead of manually cutting and pasting each word.
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How to take a screenshot on your Mac
- To take a screenshot, press and hold these three keys together: Shift, Command, and 3.
- If you see a thumbnail in the corner of your screen, click it to edit the screenshot. Or wait for the screenshot to save to your desktop.
How to capture a portion of the screen
- Press and hold these three keys together: Shift, Command, and 4.
- Drag the crosshair to select the area of the screen to capture. To move the selection, press and hold Space bar while dragging. To cancel taking the screenshot, press the Esc (Escape) key.
- To take the screenshot, release your mouse or trackpad button.
- If you see a thumbnail in the corner of your screen, click it to edit the screenshot. Or wait for the screenshot to save to your desktop.
How to capture a window or menu
- Open the window or menu that you want to capture.
- Press and hold these keys together: Shift, Command, 4, and Space bar. The pointer changes to a camera icon . To cancel taking the screenshot, press the Esc (Escape) key.
- Click the window or menu to capture it. To exclude the window's shadow from the screenshot, press and hold the Option key while you click.
- If you see a thumbnail in the corner of your screen, click it to edit the screenshot. Or wait for the screenshot to save to your desktop.
Where to find screenshots
By default, screenshots save to your desktop with the name ”Screen Shot [date] at [time].png.”
In macOS Mojave or later, you can change the default location of saved screenshots from the Options menu in the Screenshot app. You can also drag the thumbnail to a folder or document.
Learn more
- In macOS Mojave or later, you can also set a timer and choose where screenshots are saved with the Screenshot app. To open the app, press and hold these three keys together: Shift, Command, and 5. Learn more about the Screenshot app.
- Some apps, such as the Apple TV app, might not let you take screenshots of their windows.
- To copy a screenshot to the Clipboard, press and hold the Control key while you take the screenshot. You can then paste the screenshot somewhere else. Or use Universal Clipboard to paste it on another Apple device.
