Textify was created to solve this problem: you can point your mouse over the text, click on the mouse shortcut (Shift + Middle click by default), and get a selectable view of the text. Textify is a portable tool which allows unselectable text to be selected and copied to the clipboard. The Control Panel 'System' applet, for example, displays various details about your PC, but if you want to select some element of that - like the Processor type - then you'll find it's not possible. To use messages stored on smartphones as evidence in court proceedings. Yesterday on Judge Judy, this girl used her iPhone to textify that the defendant had sent several messages promising to repay her the 3 grand she spent bailing him out. Textify empowers you to reach your audience wherever they are with powerful features such as scheduled messaging, group management, and text giving. Sign up for your free trial today! We've all taken pictures of important texts, maybe dates, notices and phone numbers. Ever wondered how to extract text from screen-shots? And we've all also had the problem of having to write them down later or manually type the numbers into the phone app. Textify is the app you need!
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- OBJECT METHODS
Number::Textify - turn number into some string.
version 20200512
Number::Textify helps you to build and use converter of number to some text representation of it.
For example 10_000_000 can be represented as '115 days 17 hours 46 minutes 40 seconds', '115.7 days', '115d 17:46:40', '9.54 MiB' or '10.00 MB'. You can see some examples in t/02-examples.t
This module uses object oriented approach and doesn't export anything.
new
Expects one required parameter and a hash of optional ones. If some incorrectness detected, it dies.
First (and only required) parameter is an arrayref to arrayrefs. First element in the nested arrayref is a positive number, which is a threshold for the range. The rest of elements are passed to the formatter. Arrayrefs should be sorted by the first element in descending order.
Range representation figured using the threshold is passed to the formatter along with the rest of elements in the nested arrayref.
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Default formatter joins the range representation with the first of the rest of elements in the arrayref. Unless range representation equals 1, adds 's' to the result.
If you need something else instead of that, you can pass a pair:
Then those formatted range representations are joined with the default joiner, which is ' ' (a space). If you want to use another joiner, you can provide it as:
Then the joined result is passed through the post_process sub, which by default doesn't change anything. If you want to do some processing though, you can replace it:
If you prefer to avoid zero values in the middle of result ( like '2 hours 0 minutes 14 seconds' ), you can use the option:
If you don't want the exact representation, but only some rounding, there's an option for that:
though in this case it usually has sense to provide a custom formatter too.
textify
Returns text presentation of the only one passed numeric parameter.
Valery Kalesnik, <valkoles at gmail.com>
This software is copyright (c) 2020 by Valery Kalesnik.
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.
To install Number::Textify, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.
A few weeks back we discussed an app for Android using which you can select and copy un-selectable text to the clipboard. We need such features on our smartphones, but if you think about it, we need a similar feature on our Windows computer. Let’s say you wish to copy error message from a popup in Windows or a text from an image? Well, we have evolved to Windows 10 and still the basic functionality is limited.
But as Steve Jobs said, “There’s an app for that” and luckily, in this case, there are quite a few of them that you can try to select and copy unselectable text on Windows 10. Let’s have a look at them.
Textify
Textify is the first app that you should install on your Windows computer to copy un-selectable text to the clipboard. The app is less than 250 KBs and is a portable .exe file that you can extract to any location of your computer and run it. The first time you launch Textify, it will ask you the hotkey you would like to use to invoke the Textify module, for selecting the un-selectable text(s). I prefer to use a combination of Shift keywith Middle Mouse Button but you can choose and make a different selection.
Now to copy an un-selectable text, just use the hotkey configured in the Textify app and the field will get highlighted and you will get a text box like field which you can right-click on and select the option Copy. You can also use the hotkey Ctrl+C after the text is selected.
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The good thing about the app is that it’s just 223 Kbs, but it works only in a few scenarios like selecting text from Windows dialog box, or other places where you cannot highlight and copy. It fails in scenarios where you need to select text from images and websites from where you cannot copy text. Textify even fails when you have to select text from the Start Menu. If you want to cover anything and everything, you might want to move on to the second app that we will discuss next.
Capture2Text
Capture2Text is the one app that will take care of everything when it comes to the copying of un-selectable text on Android. The only thing that I should warn you about is that the app is more than 200 MB in size and is a bit complicated to use for beginners. Apart from that, it will recognize text from anywhere and everywhere.
Capture2Text is an open source application which uses OCR (Optical Character Recognition) technique to quickly convert the text from the portion of the screen and save it to clipboard automatically. The application is portable in nature and you just need to run the .exe file from the path on which you have extracted the content of the downloaded ZIP file. The application will start minimized in the system tray and the first step you need to do is configure the hotkeys of the app.
Configure the hotkeys as you would like and whenever you need to copy the text that cannot be selected, just initiate the Capture2Text and it will give you a box which you need to draw over the text you would like to copy. When you have selected the text, just use the end hotkey and the text will be copied to the clipboard for you to paste.
Cool Tip: You can select the option Show Popup Window by right-clicking on the Capure2Text settings to get the editable text box, just in case you need to amend a few things before pasting it to the destination.The app works for a lot of languages and there are advanced settings that you can explore to expand its features. However, it works out of the box for users who only need to copy text to the clipboard and move on.
Conclusion
So these were the top two apps that would cover every aspect when it comes to copying un-selectable text on Windows. Still if you want alternatives, you can try apps like GetWindowText and ShoWin. They have not been updated for a long time, but worked for Windows 7 and I believe they will work on Windows 10 as well.
ALSO READ:How to Copy Text From Windows Error Message Boxes, Windows Explorer Etc Using GetWindowText
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