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CyberGems edited this page Aug 30, 2026 · 1 revision

OCR & Image Viewer

CyberPaste includes a full-screen image viewer with OCR text extraction, allowing you to view clipboard images and extract text from them.

Image Viewer

Opening the Viewer

  • Double-click an image clip
  • Right-click image → Open in viewer
  • Click the viewer icon on image clip cards

Viewer Features

Feature Description
Full-screen display Image fills the window
Zoom Mouse wheel or buttons to zoom in/out
Pan Click and drag when zoomed in
Fit to window Auto-scale to fit
Actual size 1:1 pixel mapping
Rotate Rotate image 90°
Copy Copy image to clipboard
Save Export image to file

Viewer Settings

Setting Description
Window width Default viewer width
Window height Default viewer height
Editor path External editor for advanced editing

OCR Text Extraction

How OCR Works

  1. Open an image clip in the viewer
  2. Click the OCR button
  3. CyberPaste uses Windows Media OCR API
  4. Text extraction runs locally on your machine
  5. Results appear in the OCR Result modal

Supported Languages

Windows Media OCR supports:

  • English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese
  • Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Japanese, Korean
  • Russian, Arabic, Dutch, Polish, Swedish
  • And more (based on Windows language packs)

OCR Result Modal

After extraction, the modal displays:

  • Extracted text in an editable text box
  • Detected language
  • Confidence indicator
  • Copy button
  • Save to clip button (creates new text clip)

OCR Tips

  1. High resolution — Larger images give better results
  2. Good contrast — Dark text on light background works best
  3. Straight orientation — Avoid skewed or rotated text
  4. Clean background — Remove noise behind text

Image Formats

Supported Formats

Format Support
PNG Full support (lossless)
JPEG Full support
BMP Full support
GIF Static frames
TIFF Supported via Windows Imaging

Image Capture

Images are captured from the clipboard in the highest available resolution:

  • PNG preferred for lossless quality
  • DPI information preserved
  • Color profile retained

External Editor

Configure an external image editor for advanced editing:

  1. Go to Settings → General
  2. Set Image editor path to your preferred editor
  3. The viewer will open images in that editor

Supported editors:

  • Paint.NET
  • Photoshop
  • GIMP
  • Any editor with command-line open support

CyberPaste is free and open source software licensed under GPLv3. Made by CyberGems.

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