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Use OCR to convert screen captures into editable text.
There IS a way to insert screen captures into GMail.
Excel works great for combining screen captures onto pages.
Dave builds giant robot army.

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Use OCR to convert screen captures into editable text.
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What's needed to convert screen captures into editable text is Optical Character Recognition (OCR). OCR is not yet a feature of CaptureWiz, but many scanners and multi-function machines come with OCR you can use. It's easy. For example, here's how to use the OmniPage OCR that comes with ScanSoft's PaperPort, which comes with many Brother printers.

1 Save the screen capture to your desktop, preferably as a PNG file.
2 Open the PaperPort software.
3 Drag the saved PNG file from your desktop to the Notepad icon at the bottom of the PaperPort window.
4 Notepad opens with the converted, editable text.

For frequent use, you may be able to wire CaptureWiz's Editor button to your OCR program. Here's how:
http://pixelmetrics.com/screen-capture/how-to/index.html?editor_button.htm

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There IS a way to insert screen captures into GMail.
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Yes, there is a way to insert images into GMail, you just have to know this buried trick:

1 In GMail, click Settings at the top right.
2 Click Labs at the top.
3 Scroll down and enable Inserting Images.
4 Scroll to the bottom and click Save Changes.

Now you can insert images into GMail by clicking the Insert Image icon on the Compose Mail toolbar. The icon looks like a tiny photograph. After clicking the icon, a window opens for selecting the desired image.

And, here's a great way to grab the file path to recent screen captures. On the capture bar, click the mini-viewer, then use the mouse wheel to scroll to the desired image. Right-click the image, then click Copy File Path.

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Excel works great for combining screen captures onto pages.
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It sounds wacky at first, but it turns out Microsoft Excel works great for composing screen captures and text onto pages. Simply paste the images into Excel, then re-positioned them to any pixel by dragging or pressing keyboard arrow keys. Images can also be resized by dragging little handles. You can't do that with Microsoft Word or Paint! Thank you to technology wiz Dwight D for pointing this out!

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Dave builds giant robot army.
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Frustrated PixelMetrics President, Dave Eisler, announced, "It's time we got serious about software piracy". After watching Iron Man 2, Dave began work on a giant robot army for persuading free-trial users into become paid customers, and if time, establish world peace. Near the end of the CaptureWiz trial, flying robots will introduce themselves to users as "friends of CaptureWiz". The nuclear powered machines will explain how they "really care about people and sincerely want them to enjoy a lifetime of CaptureWizPro's wonderful features". Assistant Megalomaniac, Steve Fisher, boasts that he expects to increase customer conversions to 98% and fill our openings for slave laborers with the remaining 2%.

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