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ChessOcrPict on Windows Pc

Developed By: Gerhard Roth

License: Free

Rating: 3,3/5 - 120 votes

Last Updated: December 25, 2023

Compatible with Windows 10/11 PC & Laptop

Game Details

Version	1.4
Size	4.8 MB
Release Date	December 14, 13
Category	Board Games
Game Permissions: Allows an application to write to external storage. [see more (2)]
What's New: Release 1.4 allows the ChessBase Android app to be invoked. ChessOcrPict is free for recognition from screen captures (square figures). But recognition from... [see more]
Description from Developer: This app recognize chess figures (diagrams) in a book or magazine. It is a free version of ChessOcr https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kgroth.chessocr but instead o... [read more]

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About this game

On this page you can download ChessOcrPict and play on Windows PC. ChessOcrPict is free Board game, developed by Gerhard Roth. Latest version of ChessOcrPict is 1.4, was released on 2013-12-14 (updated on 2023-12-25). Estimated number of the downloads is more than 5,000. Overall rating of ChessOcrPict is 3,3. Generally most of the top apps on Android Store have rating of 4+. This game had been rated by 120 users, 36 users had rated it 5*, 45 users had rated it 1*.

How to play ChessOcrPict on Windows?

Instruction on how to play ChessOcrPict on Windows 10 Windows 11 PC & Laptop

In this post, I am going to show you how to install ChessOcrPict on Windows PC by using Android App Player such as BlueStacks, LDPlayer, Nox, KOPlayer, ...

Before you start, you will need to download the APK/XAPK installer file, you can find download button on top of this page. Save it to easy-to-find location.

[Note] You can also download older versions of this game on bottom of this page.

Below you will find a detailed step-by-step guide, but I want to give you a fast overview of how it works. All you need is an emulator that will emulate an Android device on your Windows PC and then you can install applications and use it - you see you're playing it on Android, but this runs not on a smartphone or tablet, it runs on a PC.

If this doesn't work on your PC, or you cannot install, comment here and we will help you!

Install & Play using BlueStacks
Install & Play using NoxPlayer

Step By Step Guide To Play ChessOcrPict using BlueStacks

Download and Install BlueStacks at: https://www.bluestacks.com. The installation procedure is quite simple. After successful installation, open the Bluestacks emulator. It may take some time to load the Bluestacks app initially. Once it is opened, you should be able to see the Home screen of Bluestacks.
Open the APK/XAPK file: Double-click the APK/XAPK file to launch BlueStacks and install the application. If your APK/XAPK file doesn't automatically open BlueStacks, right-click on it and select Open with... Browse to the BlueStacks. You can also drag-and-drop the APK/XAPK file onto the BlueStacks home screen
Once installed, click "ChessOcrPict" icon on the home screen to start playing, it'll work like a charm :D

[Note 1] For better performance and compatibility, choose BlueStacks 5 Nougat 64-bit read more

[Note 2] about Bluetooth: At the moment, support for Bluetooth is not available on BlueStacks. Hence, apps that require control of Bluetooth may not work on BlueStacks.

How to play ChessOcrPict on Windows PC using NoxPlayer

Download & Install NoxPlayer at: https://www.bignox.com. The installation is easy to carry out.
Drag the APK/XAPK file to the NoxPlayer interface and drop it to install
The installation process will take place quickly. After successful installation, you can find "ChessOcrPict" on the home screen of NoxPlayer, just click to open it.

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Download older versions

Other versions available: 1.4.

Download ChessOcrPict 1.4 on Windows PC – 4.8 MB

This app recognize chess figures (diagrams) in a book or magazine. It is a free version of ChessOcr https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kgroth.chessocr but instead of using the back facing camera, the input is any captured image in the gallery. This captured image must contain the chess figure and is typically obtained by doing a screen capture of a displayed chess figure (from a pdf file or a web page). The input image can also be captured off-line using any camera, which is then transferred to the Android device.

This app can be invoked directly at which point the input picture must be selected. However, if you have an image in the gallery to process (or have a screen capture) then you can also open it and select ChessOcrPict to process this image using the share content icon. Once in ChessOcrPict simply touch the screen to start the recognition process. If recognition is successful it displays the result, and asks you to select which color is to move, which is always necessary. Then it saves each recognized figure in a pgn file, and also puts the most recent one in the clipboard as a FEN string.

Once the position is recognized you can do with ChessOcrPict exactly what you could do with ChessOcr. That is you can invoke an Android chess program like DroidFish, SCIDOnthego or Chess for Android to analyze the position or perform a data base search for games that contain this position (SCIDOnthego). There is a free SCID database that can be used with SCIDOnthego. Simply download the zip file http://www.kgrothapps.com/files/dbsmall-apr-6-13.zip then unzip and put these files in SCID directory.

For best results the chess figure should take up at least half of the input image. If recognition fails then the app simply returns directly without a result. So in summary, this app has the same functionality as ChessOcr, but the input is a static image obtained off-line, and not a live image obtained from a back facing camera. ChessOcrPict does not work well on web pages, but it will work on the pdf files for books and magazines.

Release 1.4 allows the ChessBase Android app to be invoked. ChessOcrPict is free for recognition from screen captures (square figures). But recognition from device cameras (not square figures) requires ChessOcrProKey app and is best done with the ChessOcr app.

Release 1.1 Now allows an image to be specified when the app is started. So the app can be invoked directly, or can be used to process an image in the gallery by using the share content icon.

Allows an application to write to external storage.
Allows an application to read from external storage.