How do I get the best quality screenshot for OCR (Optical Character Recognition) and what tool would

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I'm trying to get some data into a text file from screenshots. Apparently screenshots don't work very well with OCR because they are 75dpi and the minimum for good quality OCR is 150dpi. Does anyone know how what the best way to be taking screenshots for OCR would be?

And also, what the best OCR software for doing this would be?

Right now I'm getting pretty good results with the free online tools such as new-ocr but it does make mistakes that I have to correct every now and then. So I'd like some tips.

UPDATE: I tested out ABBYY screenshot and it was pretty bad... the online tools are better

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