ABBYY frequently offers trial versions of their productivity bundles. This allows you to use the software legally for a limited time to evaluate its features.
If you’d like, I can:
| Tool | Free? | Notes | |------|-------|-------| | (Windows) | Yes, open-source | Captures + OCR via Tesseract. Very powerful. | | Capture2Text | Yes | Portable, good for quick region OCR. | | TextGrabber (ABBYY) | Paid (trial) | Mobile-focused, but newer. | | Windows PowerToys (Text Extractor) | Yes | Built-in OCR for Windows 10/11. | | Google Keep | Yes | Extract text from images in notes. | | Microsoft OneNote | Yes | Paste screenshot → right-click → “Copy Text from Picture.” | abbyy screenshot reader 11 serial number