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QuickOCR

A portable, offline OCR utility for Windows. Instantly capture and extract text from images, videos, games, and uncopiable UI elements.

Features

• Visual Snipping: Draw a box on your screen to capture text.
• Bilingual: Ships with English & French, read together or one at a time.
• Add your own language: Drop any Tesseract .traineddata file in and pick it in the app.
• Anti-Holographic: Special filters to read text on noisy/colored backgrounds (Game menus, Trading cards).
• Portable: Single .exe file. No installation. No admin rights.

How to Use

1. Download QuickOCR.exe from the link below.
2. Run QuickOCR.exe (It is a single file, no installation needed).
3. Click CAPTURE ZONE.
4. Draw a box around any text.
5. The text is automatically copied to your clipboard.

To cancel a capture, click once without dragging, right-click, or press Esc.

Troubleshooting

• The screen is dimmed and nothing happens. That is the capture overlay. Press Esc, right-click, or click once to dismiss it.
• The text came out wrong. The result popup shows a warning when Tesseract is unsure of the read, so check it before pasting.
• Text in another language comes out garbled (Größe read as GroBe, niño as nino). QuickOCR can only recognise the languages it ships with. Add the language, see below.
• Reporting a bug. QuickOCR writes a log to %APPDATA%\QuickOCR\quickocr.log. Attaching it to an issue makes the problem far easier to track down.

Adding a language

1. Download the .traineddata file for your language from tessdata_fast (for example deu.traineddata).
2. Put it in Tesseract-OCR/tessdata/.
3. Pick it from the Language dropdown in the app.

Building from source picks up every language present automatically. Note that Tesseract is most accurate with one language selected, so prefer a single language over a long combination.

Requirements

• Windows 10/11
• No other dependencies (Tesseract is bundled).

Download

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Building from source

build.bat

Installs the dependencies, stages the minimal Tesseract bundle and produces dist/QuickOCR.exe. Run run_tests.bat to execute the test suite (see tests/README.md).

Reviews

QuickOCR was reviewed by Softpedia, which rated it 4.5/5 and awarded its Certified 100% Clean badge.

"Capture text from anywhere on your screen, even on tricky or colorful backgrounds, and instantly convert it into editable English or French text" — Softpedia review by Alexandra Sava

Legal & License

License This project is licensed under the GNU GPLv3 License - see the LICENSE file for details.

What this means:

• You cannot close the source code and sell this application.
• Any modifications you distribute must also be open source under GPLv3.
• This software is free and open source. Do not pay for this software.