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TextGRAB SDK
$29 - Renovation Software

TextGRAB SDK is a COM library that allows screen text capture in Windows applications.

You can use it to capture text from any application that doesn't provide communication API's in order to feed another program. You can capture text from any part of any window including: status bar messages, Windows error messages and more, list controls, list views, menus, any custom controls, etc.

TextGRAB SDK is not an OCR based solution. Which makes it work faster than OCR based solution and allows capture text even if some custom fonts are used.

TextGRAB SDK can be used in different types of software like dictionaries, translation tools, organizer applications, etc.


Features:
* Capture text from rectangle
* Capture word from point
* Capture sentence from point
* Capture all text from scrollable windows
* Capture whole window
* Interactive text capture (user can select area or point on screen and capture text from it)
* Unicode support
* Support different popular applications such as Office applications, internet browsers, email and instant messaging applications, etc.
* Easy to integrate to your application
* Capture font information (face, size and color)
* Capture passwords hidden behind asterisks


Limitations: TextGRAB SDK can not capture text from PDF.

Supported OS: Windows 2000/Windows XP/Windows Server 2003/Windows Vista

Download Trial:

Trial includes:
* TextGRAB SDK
* API documentation
* Demo applications with sourcecode (C++, C#, VB.NET, VB 6.0, Delphi)

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Capture Text
$29.95 - CaptureText.com

Capture Text was designed specifically to meet the demands of those who works with large amount of texts and prizes their time to spend it on endless typing.
How often were you in the situation when you needed to save some data but wasn't able to do it because words or figures were protected by some script of just cannot be copied? Well, here's the tool that will help you to avoid all these problems and settle them once and for all.
Capture Text recognizes any text that is displayed on the screen and saves it to clipboard, so you can work with it.

The program interacts with your document processing software and converts the captured text or graphic image to content that can be recognized as text within the document processing software.
You don't need to re-type the text you can see on screen - just select it with mouse and it will be copied to clipboard.
Capture Text recognizes letters, punctuation, and numbers. If you select graphics, the program translates it as letters and punctuation.
The software is capable to capture and recognize URLs as well as the scanned blocks of text - no need to use conventional expensive OCR programs, let Capture Text do the work for you.

Features:
Recognizes text in any type of document (HTML, Word, Notepad, PDF, BMP or JPG image) or in any part of the screen and saves it to clipboard.
Recognizes text that cannot be saved or printed.
Recognizes text in any language that cannot be saved or printed.
Recognizes "hidden" text ignoring blocking scripts on Internet pages.
Reads selected text in documents, emails or Internet pages.
Works with virtually any proportional and fixed typeface.
Properly works with character sizes 6 to 72 point.
Works with all American and European character sets, including the Central-European and Cyrillic.
Selects the text with rectangular selection tool, window selection, scrolling window selection or graphic selection.
Fully integrates with word processing tools.

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Miraplacid Text Driver
$49.95 - Miraplacid

Miraplacid Text Driver 2007 for Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista extracts text from any printable documents. Accounting professionals, Medical Insurance companies, Health care providers and many others use it to extract text from all kind of document formats they receive and import it into their systems.
After installation on your PC, Miraplacid Text Driver appears as a new printer in your Windows system. When document is printed, Miraplacid Text Driver opens a dialog with Preview Window. You can save resulting text to disk, upload to FTP or HTTP server, print to a real printer, email or just copy to Clipboard. You can save extracted information as plain or formatted text, XML or as RSS feed for future processing. Miraplacid Text Driver supports all installed code pages as well as Unicode. Miraplacid Text Driver adds an icon to desktop. All the documents you drag and drop to this icon will be printed behind the scenes and processed by Miraplacid Text Driver. Turn "Auto Save Mode" on if you want Miraplacid Text Driver to handle text extraction and processing without waiting for your input. It can automatically name files and toss them to folders based on date and time, document name, as well as print job and page number.
If you need a hard copy of the extracted text or original document or both, Miraplacid
Text Driver can print it to a real printer for you.

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PDF2TXT(PDF to Text)
$38 - verypdf.com Inc

PDF2TXT converts PDF documents to text format,Fast,Accurate,Free Trial. PDF2TXT software can extract text from pdf files, it needn't Adobe Acrobat software, it has high speed in process. You can use it to convert pdf to text! you can convert a lot of pdf files on the fly to text files once time! pdf to text converter keeps original page layout in the generated text file. pdf to text converter is also support command line operation.

PDF To Text Converter function and face:
1. PDF To Text Converter does extract text contents from PDF file to txt file,
2. PDF To Text Converter keep the text layout in pages,
3. PDF To Text Converter supports PDF1.6 protocol (supported by Acrobat7.0),
4. PDF To Text Converter supports command line, you can call it from yourself program easily,
5. PDF To Text Converter doesn't need Adobe Acrobat software,
6. PDF To Text Converter supports Windows 95,98,2000,NT,ME and XP systems,
7. PDF To Text Converter supports batch convert PDF files to text files, batch conversion,
8. PDF To Text Converter supports drag and drop files,
9. PDF To Text Converter supports CIDFont character set,
10. Support PDF files which are not fully supported by Acrobat 5.0, mostly files contain errors or double-byte characters,
11. PDF To Text Converter supports auto correct error text streams in PDF file,
12. PDF To Text Converter can convert PDF documents into ASCII text format with a minimum loss of formatting information,
13. Full install/uninstall support,
14. Convert PDF documents to text Easy,Fast,Accurate,Free Trial,

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MAGIA SWF Text
$39.95 - MAGIA Internet Studio

SWFText is an author tool of Flash text animation. It embraces 160+ text effects and 30+ background effects, and users may also customize all the properties of a Flash, including font, text color, and layout, etc.
With SWFText, a user without any experience of Flash development can easily create a Flash banner or an introductory page within a few minutes by simply entering the text, selecting the font and choosing animation effects!
While a veteran Flash designer can use SWFText for making text animation in a project, greatly saving his time and efforts.
KEY BENEFITS
Spend Less Time
With its user-friendly interface, SWF Text is simple and easy to use for even a user without any experience of Flash development. SWF Text enables you to create a Flash text animation with just a few clicks, saving your time on Flash development courses.
Spend Less Money
With SWF Text, you'll be glad to find that there is no need to employ Flash designers for Flash text animation or to spend money on expensive Flash development tools and endless training courses.
Rich Effect Library
So far, SWF Text embraces 150+ text effects and 20+ background effects. Each of these effects further includes a series of internal properties, and you may achieve different animation results by setting the properties. More wonderful effects will be added to the effect library in following upgraded versions.

Powerful and Flexible Customized Animation Properties
With SWF Text, users can customize a final Flash movie by presetting all the properties, including movie size, movie playback speed, background color, background image, background animation effect, text, text animation effect, font, text color, text alpha transparency, text size, text's horizontal and vertical position, text spacing, and website linked to by the movie.

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TEXTfromPDF
$44.95 - Salty Brine Software

TEXTfromPDF is a text extraction tool for WinXP/2000 that automates the conversion of Adobe PDF documents to text files. The PDFs may be on local drives, network drives, or on the Internet.

PDF files are great for exchanging formatted documents between people who don't use the same software. But sometimes we need to be able to take the text out of a PDF file and use it in Web pages, word processing documents, PowerPoint presentations, desktop publishing software, search and indexing applications, or in content management systems.

TEXTfromPDF provides access to the text content in PDF documents without requiring any Adobe product. The extracted content is saved to text files where it can be easily searched, archived, repurposed, and managed. A console version is included for script or batch file execution.

What matters most to you? Speed or Accuracy? TEXTfromPDF offers both using multiple extraction engines optimized for different purposes.

Need Speed?
Boasting the fastest text extractor available on the market, TEXTfromPDF's "Simple Formatting" option can process hundreds of PDFs in minutes. This option utilizes an extraction engine written in Assembly Language. Programming code written in this language executes at blazing speeds not normally attainable by code written in other languages.

Accuracy?
If faithful reproduction of the original PDF layout is required, TEXTfromPDF can provide amazingly accurate conversion results. This extraction engine has been refined over many years to produce text files that are as close to the original PDF layout as possible.

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