The point of my “caption/title” comment is that it DOESN’T capture them. I’ve tried notepad, Eudora, Firefox, IE, and many others. (Which brings up the point of you somehow knowing what I’ve tried and what I haven’t.) It might capture SOME, but I’ve yet to find one that it captures. And…. it doesn’t capture in PDF files. In some PDF files, it crashes out Adobe Reader. I tried 5 different PDF files from different sources and it capture 4 in graphics form and crashed the 5th. In some GUI sections — like on the start menu — it will sometimes capture as text, sometimes as graphics, and sometimes not at all in favor of the text underneath. It depends, apparently, on where you start the clip.

I wasn’t attacking it’s intended purpose. I was telling people that it often doesn’t DO it’s intended purpose — separate from the coding issue. The only place that it captures text reliably is in plain text, which is useless because you can simply copy and paste.

We wouldn’t have much disagreement if you hadn’t falsely accused me of making false statements. Everything I said in my original post is true. This program doesn’t do much that you can’t already do with windows. What it does do…. it doesn’t do reliably.

I was defending the program’s purpose, not its coding. You were attacking the purpose for the program. Further, some people have mentioned uses which I hadn’t thought of. Capturing a selected column of text in a PDF document, for example. Much quicker than converting it to text (Adobe Acrobat Reader can convert to text, but not formatted, so you would have to use other software), and then using an editor which supports column selection.

You didn’t even try the example I mentioned. I captured the UI of a program, with not only filled-out fields (some of which could be copied), but also the labels for those fields, button labels, etc., none of which could be copied (some programs let you copy some of that, some don’t). While that may not be a great example, clearly there are situations where plain text cannot be copied. As I said, it astonishes me that anyone who’s used Windows for more than a short period of time isn’t aware of that.

Of course, if you’re happy manually retyping text, or just capturing a graphical image, that’s your choice, but it doesn’t diminish the purpose of this program for the rest of us. The coding is a quality issue, not an intended purpose issue.

OK. You found one that I can’t copy directly from the box — in text format. But, if I wanted to send this dialog to someone in a wordpad document or an email to show them what to look for, I would ALT-PrtScr and paste the actual dialog — or actually type it; which I can do nearly as fast. Or, I would drag my mouse across what you already typed. ;-)

In addition, I can show you ten that this program can’t copy that I can. Copy a TITLE bar in IE when you are looking at a web page, for example. It can’t. But you can right-click the page, choose “view source”, and mouse copy the title right out of the page.

But, my point was that fubar stated that my original “review” had false statements in it. There were none.

#132 – fubar

So, now I make false statements (which you haven’t proven) and I am a little kid. You’re just full of crazy and false accusations.

“Caption of a window”? Which would that be? The IE title that I mentioned above? So, why would I want to run a program that you called “bad coding” to capture SOME window text that I can capture SOME of with other means; and SOME of which even this program can’t capture?

“Mostly, I would use this for capturing text in error message dialog boxes which don’t let you select the text.” — fubar

That’s just simply untrue. Many windows error boxes work with CTRL-C to copy the text.

It says it captures text and they specifically mention “OCR” to give the impression that this was a better solution to programs like Topocr or JOCR which capture text from graphics.

#135 – Alf

No, fubar was not right. He said my original post was false statements. You will note the last line of my original post.

I will concede that in the first part, I should have been more clear when I said “nothing with text”. I should have said, “regular text” instead. I was thinking about the regular text because I had already tried it on so many other types of text that it cannot do.

As for your Explorer example, I can TYPE “My Computer” faster than I can capture it with this program. And, it doesn’t work with IE, Firefox, and other title bars — which I can copy as described above. As I originally stated, it doesn’t do “much” that you can’t already do in other — and/or better — ways.

I didn’t say it was useless or disparage it.

This is an excellent capture tool because it doesn’t just capture an image but also captures text (as TEXT not as an image) if that’s the area you select.

Plus you can draw the area that you want to use freehand instead of being stuck with just a rectangular area (though I don’t know how often this would be preferable).

Comment by Spodo — September 12th, 2008 at 3:41 am
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Y’know I just did the above using highlight/copy/paste. What’s hard?
It didn’t cost me a cent….
If a text area is not already an image you can do it any time and paste it into a word processing program. Images on the net can be saved and then inserted in to your work. its not rocket science. if its a PDF Adobe reader allows it to be pasted…albeit as an image…
Just the same some would find it useful. I wouldn’t pay for anything like this, windows already does it.
As for anything that will show a hidden password, at least on someone else’s computer…it should be banned.