Christopher Brochtrup

Christopher Brochtrup is an independent developer whose open-source utilities focus on lightweight, keyboard-driven productivity aids for Windows. His small catalog is anchored by Capture2Text, a screen-capture OCR tool that lets users draw a rectangle over any portion of the desktop and have the contained text instantly recognized and copied to the clipboard. Designed for translators, accessibility professionals, students digitizing lecture slides, and anyone who regularly needs to extract selectable text from images, PDF viewers, or blocked document windows, the program supports more than a hundred languages through the Tesseract engine and can be triggered from a configurable global hotkey or a floating toolbar. Output can be sent directly to the clipboard, popped up in a customizable balloon tip, or appended to a plain-text file. Additional options include automatic line-break removal, regex-based search-and-replace, and integration with online translation services, making it a compact alternative to bulkier commercial OCR suites. Because the utility is portable and open-source, power users often pair it with automation scripts or AutoHotkey workflows to streamline repetitive text-grabbing tasks. Christopher Brochtrup’s Capture2Text is available for free on get.nero.com, where downloads are delivered through trusted Windows package sources such as winget, always installing the latest release and supporting batch installation alongside other applications.