Part 1. How to Use
1.1 Image to Text
You can convert local images to text singly or in batches.
- Step 1： Press Ctrl+I, or right-click the icon in the tray area and select Import Images.
- Step 2： Select a image from local to OCR in the program.
- Step 3： The result will be shown on the right side. Choose your target Translate Language to translate the result if needed.
By holding Ctrl button when pop up window shows up, you can select multiple images from local files.
1.2 Screenshot to Text
- Step 1： Press Ctrl+Alt+Z for Win and CMD+1 for Mac, or right-click the icon in the tray area , to activate screenshot function. Drag your mouse to select the portion of the screen to OCR.
- Step 2： The result will show in the right side. You can edit, copy and translate it.
You can extract text from screenshots or translate the content of any screenshot into other language using OCR.
1.3 Export the OCR Result
To export the OCR result, simply copy it from the right side. Alternatively, choose the Output Mode in the lower left corner for different Output Mode:
- Single output: All the result will be saved in one file.
- Multiple output: The result will be saved in several files accordingly.
- Copy recognition result to clipboard: The recognition result will be automatically copied to your clipboard.
- Copy translate result to clipboard: The translation result will be automatically copied to your clipboard.
- Auto translate after recognition: The recognition result will be automatically translated to the other language according to your preset Translate language.
- Hide recognize window: The recognition windows won’t pop up and the recognition result will be copied to your clipboard automatically.
- Hide user interface: The user interface won’t appear. You can either use keyboard shortcuts, or right click the tray icon to activate OCR function.
- Step 1： In the launchpad, click the icon to open the program.
- Step 2： Click to open System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Privacy > Screen Recording > give the permission to PDNob Image Translator.
- Step 3： Check and restart PDNob Image Translator.
Part 2: Settings
Right-click the tray icon, click on Setting to open the panel. And you will see 2 options. One is General, and the other is Hotkeys. Let’s go through them one by one.
2.1 General
For the upper part, you can activate the function by click on the checkbox before each option. For the low part, you can customize the programming, detect and translate language, which means the program will run by default according to your presets.
2.2 Hotkeys
You can customize keyboard shortcuts to your liking. The program supports up to 3 keys combination. For Windows users, the default screenshot shortcut key is Ctrl+Alt+Z; the default batch OCR shortcut key is Ctrl+B; the default import images shortcut key is Ctrl+I. For Mac users, only screenshot shortcut (CMD+1) is supported. And you might need to go to the tray icon to use the other 2 functions.
Part 3. Download Problem (For Mac users)
Now, you can copy image or PDF text on the Mac anytime you want.