How to Use:

1. Run the app. The system tray icon will appear in the bottom-right of the screen.
2. Click on the system tray icon to activate the OCR screen (or use the keyboard shortcut "Ctrl+Alt" or "Ctrl+Windows").
3. Select the text area on the computer screen (click at the top-left corner, drag to the bottom-right corner, and release the mouse).
4. The text editor will pop up with editable text after the OCR conversion.
5. Verify and edit the text using the built-in toolbar.
6. Click the "OK" button to finish (or click the "Continue" button to proceed to the next selection).
7. Paste the text into other text editors or appropriate applications as needed.

Keyboard Shortcuts:

• Ctrl+Alt or Ctrl+Windows: Activate OCR screen
• Right-click: Deactivate OCR screen
• Double-click: Show Settings window
• Ctrl+Q: Exit program
• Esc: Close window

Shortcuts for Text Editor:

Settings Window:

OCR Settings

• Languages: Select for OCR languages
• System Languages: Select for system locale default language
• Math & Equation: Select for math and equations for OCR detection

Text Layout

• Auto: Select for automatic text layout detection
• Single Character: Select for only single character
• Single Word: Select for only single word character
• Single Line: Select for only single line character
• Sparse Text: Select for spread or distributed text layout
• Vertical Text: Select for vertical text layout
• Single Column: Select for single column layout
• Multiple Column: Select for multiple column layout

Detected Text

• Select All: Select for all detected text options
• Custom: Select for customized detected text options
• Lower Cases: Select for lower case letters (a to z)
• Upper Cases: Select for upper case letters (A to Z)
• Letters: Select for alphabet letters of OCR languages
• Numbers: Select for digit numbers (0 to 9)
• Punctuation: Select for punctuation
• Special Characters: Select for special characters

Output Save as

• Text: Select for plain text or rich text format (.txt, .rtf, .odt, .doc, .docx)
• PDF: Select for PDF format (.pdf)
• Spreadsheet: Select for spreadsheet format (.xlsx, .xls, .csv, .ods)

Optimization

• Standard: Select for standard performance of OCR optimization
• Speed: Select for high speed performance with less accuracy
• Accuracy: Select for high accuracy performance with slow speed

Page Layout

• Auto-Rotate Page: Select for auto-rotate page
• Auto-Deskew: Select for auto-deskew
• Decolumnize: Select to decolumnize multiple columns to single column
• Remove Table: Select to remove tables
• Remove Watermarks: Select to remove watermarks
• Remove Underlines: Select to remove underlines
• Remove Extra Spaces: Select to remove extra spaces
• Remove Empty Lines: Select to remove empty lines

Image Enhancement

• Despeckle: Select to remove speckle noise
• Invert Color: Select to invert color
• Threshold Binary: Select to apply binary threshold
• Threshold Adaptive: Select to apply adaptive threshold
• Sharpen: Select to sharpen the image
• Contrast: Select to increase the contrast

Image Filtering

• Background Noise: Select to remove background noise
• Text Noise: Select to remove text noise
• Text Erosion: Select to apply text erosion
• Text Dilation: Select to apply text dilation
• Threshold: Select to apply basic threshold with a low and high threshold value

Recognition

• Whitelist: Select to specify a list of characters that are allowed to be recognized
• Blacklist: Select to specify a list of characters that are excluded from the output

Theme

• Theme Color: Select to set theme color for Light mode and Dark mode
• Custom Color: Select to set custom theme color for Light mode and Dark mode
• Rubber Band: Select to set thickness, opacity, and color of the rubber band

Misc

• System Setting: Select to set font size and border style
• Text Editor: Select to set icon size, status bar, toggle mode
• About: Select to display software information and license status
• License: Select to activate product key and software license file
• Tutorial: Select to display tutorial information
• Help: Select to display information on how to use the software

How to Show System Tray Icon:

1. Press Windows+I to open the Settings window, and go to "Personalization" and "Taskbar".
2. Under the "Notification area", click on "Select which icons appear on the taskbar", and turn on CubeOCR to show the System Tray Icon.