Copyright: Copyright (c) 1996-1999 by Structu Rise


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Kleptomania 1.7 Trial for Windows 95/98/NT, 1999/08/05

Kleptomania 1.7 allows to capture and process text from any (even clipboard-unaware) application. Copy text onto clipboard, launch internet browser or email editor, sum numbers, count a number of words/characters. Process text of folder trees, file lists, database reports, text content of messages and dialog boxes, menus, status lines, visible text of legacy systems, and more. Kleptomania does not rely on any data communication scheme behind the scene. Uses OCR and delivers ultimate text capture and processing abilities.

Kleptomania Features

New in 1.7: demonstration pack, powerful hotkey, 1click selection of window/phrase and 10 more features.

Try it now!

How to Use Kleptomania System Tray Icon,  Text Selection and Processing
Properties Dialog,  Hot Key Activation,  Uninstall

Kleptomania Tips and Hints

Vote for the Next Most Valuable Feature

Kleptomania Frequently Asked Questions

Trial and commercial version. License agreement

Order Now! at http://www.structurise.com/kleptomania/order.htm

In depth: Direct Klepting technology and Textract Screen Text Capture OCR Library,  Fonts and Fonts Database

About Structu Rise. Contacts, web site

Copyright (c) 1996-1999 by Structu Rise


Properties Dialog

The properties dialog is activated by right clicking the Kleptomania system tray Icon and selecting Properties, or by running Kleptomania second time.

Controls

Auto-StartUp CheckBox

Kleptomania will be loaded automatically when Windows starts. Default: checked

Highlight Text CheckBox

Kleptomania highlights captured text to provide visual feedback. Check the box, then select the highlight color from the drop down box. Default: checked, color red.

Switch Kleptomania mode

Assigns hot key. Default: none.

OK

Click to accept any changes and close the dialog box. Kleptomania will remain active.

Cancel

Click to reject any changes and close the dialog box. Kleptomania will remain active.

Exit

Click to reject any changes, close the dialog box and quit Kleptomania.

Help

Click to display this online help topic.

Control Menu

Rebuild the font database

Click to rebuild the font database. Read the "Fonts and fonts database" topic for more information.

Exit

Click to reject any changes, close the dialog box and quit Kleptomania.

Help Menu

Contents

Displays the help Index.

Properties Dialog Help

Displays this help topic.

How to Use help

Displays the Windows help index.

About

Displays the current version number, web site information and e-mail address.


How to Use System Tray Cross
How to Use the Kleptomania System Tray Icon

Kleptomania puts a cross icon in the system tray.

Click your left mouse button on the cross to activate text selection and processing, which is the essence of Kleptomania.

Click you right mouse button on the cross to open the popup menu.

Popup menu

Start Selection

Click to begin selection of the text you wish to capture and process. See more in the text selection and   processing.

Demonstration

Click to run Kleptomania animated demonstration to learn how Kleptomania can be 	used

Order Online Now!

Click to launch your internet browser and load the Kleptomania ordering page

Visit the Web

Click to launch your internet browser and load the Kleptomania home page

FAQ on the Web

Click to launch your internet browser and load the Kleptomania Frequently Asked Questions page

Write E-Mail

Click to launch your default e-mail program and write to Kleptomania user support

Vote for New Features

Click to open Vote for the Next Most Valuable Feature and cast your ballot.

Help

Click to display this online help topic.

Exit

Click to quit Kleptomania.

Properties

Click to open the Properties dialog box.


How to Use Hot Key Activation
How to Use the Hot Key

Text selection and processing is activated by pressing and holding down the hot key. Once you press hot key mouse cursor switches to Kleptomania Cross. Holding the hot key drag the cursor to select proper area and then release the hot key to process. The Hot Key can be assigned or changed in Properties dialog box.


Features
Kleptomania Features

•  capture and process on-screen text of any applications, of any registered fonts

•  copy text onto clipboard

•  search the selected phrase with the web search engines like Altavista, Amazon and more.

•  coming soon: dial the selected phone number

•  launch internet browser for recognized URL

•  start email editor for recognized email addresses or addressee name

•  sum selected numbers

•  count a number of words and characters

•  show font name, size, bold/italic style of used font. Stop unreliable guessing about fonts on the screen

•  capture and process folder trees, file lists, database reports, text content of messages and dialog boxes, menus, status lines, precisely selected areas of internet browser views, visible text of legacy systems, and more

•  don't rely on application clipboard support or any communication standards behind the scene

•  preserve font name, size, bold/italic style

•  put the captured text onto the clipboard in plain and Rich Text Format

•  full install and uninstall support

•  this is the first (and seems to be the only) solution for capturing text by the means of OCR

You'll be amazed how easy it is to use. Try it now.

Use examples

•  put Explorer folder content to Word document or email in 3 seconds and 4 mouse clicks.

•  capture and send Outlook email history to your addressee

•  launch browser to visit home page for the product with About box containing home page URL in 2 mouse clicks

•  grab application error message and send the bug report

•  copy just required columns from internet browser, database or worksheet data onto the clipboard

•  define what font is used by any strange application

•  ... and you know more ...

Kleptomania is based on the Direct Klepting technology.


Editions and License Agreement
Trial and Commercial Editions. License Agreement

Kleptomania is shareware. The trial version of Kleptomania is fully operational but expires in 21 days after the date of installation of Kleptomania. The trial version of Kleptomania will also add some suggestions about Kleptomania usage, distribution and licensing to the captured text on the clipboard. When you license commercial version of Kleptomania, you get the right to use it forever and this nag text on the clipboard will be eliminated. Order Now! at http://www.structurise.com/kleptomania/order.htm

As shareware, the trial version of Kleptomania is intended for unlimited distribution.  You must include all files as supplied.

Kleptomania Trial Edition License Agreement

YOU ARE GRANTED THE RIGHT TO USE THE TRIAL EDITION OF THIS SOFTWARE FOR 21 DAYS ON ANY SINGLE COMPUTER, BEGINNING WITH THE DAY OF INSTALLATION.

YOU ARE GRANTED THE RIGHT TO DISTRIBUTE THE TRIAL EDITION OF THIS SOFTWARE, PROVIDING THAT THE DISTRIBUTION PACKAGE IS NOT CHANGED, AND YOU DISTRIBUTE IT FOR FREE (WITHOUT ANY CHARGE).

THIS SOFTWARE IS SUPPLIED AS IS. BY RUNNING THIS SOFTWARE, YOU AGREE THAT YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR ALL CONSEQUENCES OF ITS USE.

Kleptomania Commercial Edition License Agreement

YOU ARE GRANTED THE PERSONAL RIGHT TO USE THIS SOFTWARE IN PRIVATE, GOVERNMENT, COMMERCIAL, INSTITUTIONAL AND ANY OTHER ENVIRONMENT.

YOU MAY NOT DISTRIBUTE THE COMMERCIAL EDITION OF THIS SOFTWARE.

THIS SOFTWARE IS SUPPLIED AS IS. BY RUNNING THIS SOFTWARE, YOU AGREE THAT YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR ALL CONSEQUENCES OF ITS USE.


Text Selection and Processing

Text selection and processing is the essence of Kleptomania. It  can be activated by left-clicking the mouse, by pressing the hot key or Kleptomania popup menu item "Start selection".

Mouse activation

Locate the Kleptomania icon in the system tray

Click the left mouse button on the cross (the mouse cursor will change to a cross.)  You are now ready to select the text to capture.

Hot Key activation

Press and hold the assigned hot key. The mouse cursor will change to a cross and you are ready to  select the text to capture. The hot key can be assigned or changed through the Properties Dialog.

Text selection

When the cursor changes its shape, you are in text selection mode.  Press the right mouse button to terminate the capture and return to your application.

Capturing text

1) Move mouse to the upper left corner of the image you are capturing.

2) Press left mouse button.

3) Drag the mouse to the lower right corner of the screen rectangle you wish to capture.

4) Release left mouse button.

Text processing

When you release the mouse button, Kleptomania captures the text, highlights it and pops up the menu with processing options.

Copy onto Clipboard

Copies the selected text onto the clipboard in plain text format and in Rich Text Format (RTF).  The clipboard will contain the text together with the font name, size and style.

Browse <http://www...>

Launches internet browser and loads the selected internet address (URL). Kleptomania captures the first sequence with no spaces and treats it as an URL. The text must start with either "http://" or "www." to enable the browse option. You must have installed an Internet browser to use this function.

E-mail to <name@domain...>

Starts the e-mail editor with selected email address. The first sequence with no spaces must be in the form name@aaa.bbb to enable the e-mail option. You must have installed an email client to use this function.

<A> lines, <B> words, <C> characters

Shows number of lines, words and characters in the selected text. If you choose this option in the menu, this information will be copied onto clipboard. Be careful to check that all the selected characters are highlighted to obtain the correct word/character count results.  Reselect the text until all the characters are highlighted.

Sum of <N> nums = <total>

Sums all the numbers in selected text and shows number of found numbers and sum total. Sums integers as well as real numbers. All alphabetic characters, delimiters and punctuation are discarded. If you choose this option in the menu, the total and summed numbers are copied onto the clipboard. Be careful to check that all selected numeric characters are highlighted to obtain correct total and reselect if necessary.

Font <used font and size>

Shows the font face name, style and pitch size of the selected and highlighted text. If you choose this option in the menu, the font name and size will be copied onto the clipboard.

Reselect

Allows you to select the screen rectangle once more. Use it to acquire accurate desired selection. It's also useful if you only need to explore fonts in use, count words and characters or sum numbers for different areas of the screen.

Cancel

returns from Kleptomania without applying an operation.

Control

Opens the submenu for Kleptomania control, see about Kleptomania System Tray Icon.


Fonts and Font Database

To recognize screen text, Kleptomania uses a font pattern database. This base is created automatically, using Windows installed fonts, when you first install Kleptomania.

If you install new fonts in the system or remove any fonts, you should rebuild the font database. Open the Properties dialog and choose menu item Control | Rebuild Font Database.


Direct Klepting
The Direct Klepting technology, or Inside Kleptomania

Kleptomania applies the Direct Klepting technology based on an optical character recognition (OCR) engine. It detects characters in the raster image and defines their precise properties; i.e., location, font face, style and size. OCR has two data sources  the captured image and the font pattern database. The font pattern database is created from the fonts installed in Windows. See "Fonts and fonts database" for more details.

Textract Screen Text Capture OCR Library

Screen Text Capture Library for Windows 98/95/NT.

Kleptomania allows to capture text from Windows 98/95/NT screen, under control of another program. Kleptomania is the development tool in the form of DLL and EXE, which could be integrated by the software developer into another product or software solution.

Download Kleptomania 1.7 demo (561 KB) and try.

Software QA departments can use Kleptomania to capture text from testing application and compare this text with intended screen content.

Kleptomania is well suited for corporate environment as an application connectivity tool, to feed some application with text from another text "source" application. Kleptomania is especially useful if this source application is a third-party, or cannot be changed, or hard and time-wasting to change, and has no adequate embedded support for communication.

Kleptomania is based on the Direct Klepting technology, specific Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology for recognition of rasterised text from computer screen. Thus, Kleptomania can capture the text from any part of any application, even from clipboard and OLE-unaware applications, for example from folder trees, file lists, database reports, text content of messages and dialog boxes, menus, status lines, legacy systems. Direct Klepting technology is copyright 1996-1999 by Structu Rise.

Part of Kleptomania, Textra.EXE is the standalone console mode Win32 application with a simple yet powerful command line interface. Textra.EXE is the simplest way to capture text using perl scripts, batch files, installation scripts, and any other utility which allows to execute programs. Textra.EXE can recognize text from screen or bitmap file and store it into file in plain text, RTF and proprietary binary and verbose text formats.

Another part of Kleptomania, Kleptomania.DLL is the dynamic link library with the simple API to call from programs, written in C++, Visual Basic, Power Builder and any other programming language with DLL support. Best for use as a building block of the whole product, which requires text capturing, like driving you proprietary hardware by text, captured from legacy system. Kleptomania.DLL can recognize text from screen or bitmap file and store results into memory or file in plain text, RTF and proprietary binary and verbose text formats.

Kleptomania contains MFC example, which shows how to use all features of the Kleptomania.DLL. This example is a great help for the developer to play with the DLL before implementing actual code. Kleptomania also contains C++ console mode examples of the DLL use, which shows the simplest possible form of use of each input and output mode. MFC and console mode examples are supplied with source text and ready to use compiled EXEs.

You could order Kleptomania Commercial online, by phone, fax, check, mail order and purchase order. Kleptomania license includes 30 day money back guarantee. Single license costs $29.95. Order now!

Kleptomania Demo version is available for free. You can download and try. Kleptomania Demo contains playable demos of Textra.EXE and Kleptomania.DLL, which will issue faked "captured" text instead of actual capturing. You should also consider to try Kleptomania utility to evaluate recognition quality and speed of the Direct Klepting technology. Kleptomania and Kleptomania use the same Direct Klepting technology engine for capturing text from screen. Textract Demo includes Kleptomania Trial.

Please feel free to ask more about Kleptomania features, use, redistribution policy, ordering, demo and commercial editions by email to support@structurise.com.


Structu Rise
Kleptomania and Structu Rise

Kleptomania is published by Structu Rise, a software development company.

We are expert developers of high-tech, algorithm-intensive software for the Microsoft Windows environment.

Kleptomania web page	http://www.structurise.com/kleptomania
Kleptomania user support	support@structurise.com
Kleptomania news list subscription	subscribe@structurise.com
Pavel Senatorov, manager	senatorov@structurise.com

Development team

Pavel Senatorov, original vision, project management, design, OCR engine development  senatorov@structurise.com

Iliya Turin, web master, administering, user support, perl programming turin@structurise.com

Jack Antipin, Vlad Vlassenko, Dmitry Zujkov, C++ developers.

Many people help us to develop and improve Kleptomania.

Emil Sildos, inspiration, consulting   http://www.excelrecovery.com

Dmitry Sumin, consulting, business luck and $more$ http://www.lostpassword.com

Konst Erman, Fc Kdp, beta testing

Liz Biss, refining English for this help file

See also: Contents


Try It Now

In this example, we'll select and process some text from this on screen help topic.

1) Locate the Kleptomania icon in the system tray.

2) Click the left mouse button on the icon; your mouse cursor will change into a cross.

3) Move the mouse to the upper left corner of the section of text you wish to capture.

4) Press left mouse button.

5) Drag the mouse to the lower right corner of the section of text you wish to capture.

6) Release left mouse button.

The text you have selected will be highlighted and the menu will pop up:

7) Choose "Copy onto Clipboard". The menu will disappear and the words you selected will return to their normal color. The selected text is now on the clipboard. Paste it into your word processor, send it in e-mail or use it anywhere else.

Related topics: how to use Kleptomania system tray icon and text selection and processing.


Uninstall

To uninstall Kleptomania, go to the Windows "Start | Programs | Kleptomania | Uninstall". The Kleptomania uninstaller will guide you through the rest of the process.

This version of Kleptomania supports the uninstallation of all previous trial and commercial versions.


What is New
What is New in Kleptomania 1.7

•  Demonstration Pack added

•  Several bugs fixed

What is New in Kleptomania 1.6

•  Powerful hotkey mode through Ctrl-Shift, Alt-Shift or Alt-Ctrl. Press the hotkey to enter selection; release the hotkey to leave it. No more mouse trips to systray.

•  Capture of the phrase in one click. Just point to the first letter of the phrase and click; the system defines the end of "phrase" by two consequtive spaces and captures it. No more laborous mouse operations for the simple cases.

•  Capture of the whole window content in one click. Just click into the window, besides the letter to distinguish from capturing of the phrase, see above. No more laborous mouse operations for the simple cases.

•  Shows capturing rectangle before the mouse click. Easy feedback simplifies the selection. No more reselctions.

•  All this delivers the most simple yet very powerful selection capabilities.

•  Search the selected phrase with the web search engines like Altavista, Dejanews and more.

•  Dial the selected phone number. Press hotkey, click into the phone on the screen, select dialer. Two clicks to dial.

•  Dynamic text processing popup menu shows most used items first. Faster typical use with more options at hands.

•  Graphics is captured along with text. Kleptomania now is a smart graphics capturer, due to its area selection capabilities.

What is New in Kleptomania 1.5

•  Improved capture of text, printed on dithered backgrounds

What is New in Kleptomania 1.3

•  Capturing module now distinguishes doubtful cases like I and l, l and 1 (I and l, l and 1)

•  Browser and e-mail editor support for NT have been done

•  Capturing module enhancements and fixes for some adjacent touching letters and single characters

What is New in Kleptomania 1.2

•  Popup menu appears after text selection, allowing to choose the appropriate text processing mode. As the result, Kleptomania interface becomes more simple and intuitive.

•  New operations have been added: launch internet browser, start e-mail editor, count lines, words and characters, sum the numbers.

•  Better user support has been added step by step in transition from 1.0 to 1.2: Web visiting of Kleptomania home page, ordering, FAQ, e-mail for user support. Voting for the Next Most Valuable Feature has been established to listen to your opinion about the future of Kleptomania.

What is New in Kleptomania 1.1

•  System tray interface instead of always-on-top "icon"

•  Capturing engine enhancements: support for capturing of adjacent touching characters. Now Kleptomania perfectly captures MS Sans Serif, Arial, Verdana, Courier and alike fonts, and captures well enough serif fonts like Times, MS Serif.

•  Stable on dithered backgrounds and still images.

•  Faster capturing. Dramatically faster capturing on complex backgrounds.

•  Windows NT now is officially supported. More than 10-fold performance boost on building font database on Windows NT.

•  Uninstall accompanies the install now. Kleptomania 1.1 Uninstall works also for uninstalling previous versions of Kleptomania.


Tips and Hints
Kleptomania Tips and Hints

How to get the most out of Kleptomania

1. Kleptomania supports all regular and bold fonts in sizes from 8 to 12 and size 14 for all characters with ASCII codes less than 128. Other sizes, italic faces, and special characters are not supported. If you need to use an unsupported face or size in your final document, capture the text in a supported face or size and change it once you have pasted it into your final document.

2. Kleptomania cannot capture underlined text, which is common in internet hyperlinks. If you are strived to capture web hyperlinks in the browser, switch hyperlink underlining off. To do it for MS Internet Explorer 4, go to

View | Internet Options | Advanced | Browsing | Underline links

and switch it to Never or Hover mode. For Netscape 4.5, go to

Edit | Preferences | Appearance | Colors | Underline links

and set it to  unchecked state.

3. Some adjacent or touching characters can not be captured in small serif fonts like Times New Roman and MS Serif in sizes 8 and 9. 'fl' and 'ab' are two examples of ligatures (a character which combines two or more individual letters) which are not currently supported. Try to avoid this kind of font. The best fonts for capturing are regular and bold Arial, Verdana, MS Sans Serif, and Courier in all supported sizes. If you wish to capture text from your internet browser, consider to setting the default font to one of these fonts.

4. When Kleptomania captures text, it identifies the most prevalent font in the capturing rectangle and processes only this font. If you need to capture text with different fonts, make a number of successive copies/pastes, limiting the captured text to only one font each time.

5. Multi column text sometimes has slightly displaced lines from column to column. It may happen that Kleptomania captures a line of text from one column and misses the text from adjacent line in another column. In this case, capture the text column by column.

6. Anti-aliased text cannot be captured. Switch anti-aliasing off to capture text.

7. To capture umlauts properly, you could try now to change Windows\K-Mania.Ini file

[Recognition]

Chars=\21-\7Fõôö+-¦

Specify the characters you require one by one, without spaces, after \21-\7F,

like in the example (shown for Sweden). Then exit Kleptomania if it is running. Load it again and rebuild the font database. Please inform us the language you are trying to recognize and the

best Chars= specification you've tried. Write us your experience with umlauts enabled. You can always return to default settings specifying Chars=\21-\7F and rebuilding the font database

or just reinstalling the Kleptomania.

Structu Rise works hard to fix bugs and add new features. Features that have been added since the first release include capturing adjacent characters, residing in the system tray, and supporting full install and uninstall.  Kleptomania is now much faster and is stable on complex backgrounds. Our next goal is to support multiple fonts in one shot and remove the limits for capturing text on dithered backgrounds. We have also designed a very convenient one-click capturing method that avoids highly precise mouse operations at the selection stage. We are always happy to listen to your suggestions about the Kleptomania user interface and features. Write to us!.

You can also subscribe to our email news. We will post new version release dates and features in the list.


Vote for the Next Most Valuable Feature
Vote for Next Most Valuable Feature

Vote for the Most Valuable Feature in the next version of Kleptomania:

•  better capturing of underlined text. Click to vote

•  better capturing of serif fonts like Times and MS Serif. Click to vote

•  support for capturing of mixed font types (faces, sizes, styles) in one selection. Click to vote

•  support for capturing subscripts and superscripts. Click to vote

•  support for recognition of the multicolumn tables and copying them onto clipboard in tabular form. Click to vote

•  support for capturing of the graphics as well as text. In this case, application which you use to paste captured data will choose the most appropriate fromat of raster graphics, plain ASCII text or RTF. Click to vote

•  support for capturing popup menu contents. Click to vote

•  new "Paste into..." processing option: selected text is immediately pasted into user-chosen paste-aware application. Click to vote

•  new "Calculate" option: consider captured text as a formula and calculate. Click to vote

Special Offer for trial users!

•  Vote now!

•  If you order Kleptomania 1.7....

•  You'll get a free upgrade with your chosen feature when it is released.

How do you vote? Simply click on one of the possible selections. Kleptomania will generate an email.  Send it to us. When we implement the feature we'll send you an invitation to download your free upgrade with your feature. Of course, Structu Rise will keep your email address confidential.

We'd appreciate any other ideas for improvement you may have. Describe your dream version of Kleptomania in your voting letter. Help create the future Kleptomania, start now!


FAQ
Kleptomania Frequently Asked Questions

 Q?.. There's written Kleptomania allows me to grab images, how can I do this?

 A!.. Select an area to capture, copy it onto clipboard using Kleptomania. Then use your favorite graphic editor to paste the image.

 Q?.. I would like to insert the image into MS Word document, but there is text only pasted.

 A!.. Please choose Edit | Paste Special  from MS Word menu and choose image item to be pasted.

 Q?.. Installed the new version Kleptomania 1.7 and it told me my trial period had ended. I'm registered user of Kleptomania.

 A!.. You need to upgrade your Commercial version of Kleptomania. Write to upgrade@structurise.com to get the latest upgrade policy.

 Q?.. Clicking on the Kleptomania system tray cross, arose dialog, claiming "Kleptomania main window not found". This happens after some other errors.

 A!.. Exit the Kleptomania using Kleptomania system tray cross, and load it again.

 Q?.. Kleptomania fails with error message like "Assertion failed in ..... Trap to the debugger?" or "Not enough memory" during build of the font database.

 A!.. We need some time to figure out what happens. The quickest way to fix this problem is to edit Windows\K-Mania.Ini file, section

[Recognition]

Include2=

Set Include2 to empty line. Then exit Kleptomania if it is running. Load it again and rebuild the font database. This method limits the number of supported fonts.

 Q?.. Auto start feature does not work.

 A!.. Fixed in builds released on or after 1998/12/26.Download new trial or ask us for free upgrage from your commercial 1.1.

 Q?.. I created desktop shortcut and it does not work.

 A!.. To create valid shortcut, specify your shortcut to run

C:\Program Files\Kleptomania\K-MRun.Exe, where

C:\Program Files\Kleptomania\ denotes the folder where you have placed the Kleptomania after installation.

 Q?.. How to use floating always on top "icon" in 1.1, as it was in 1.0?

 A!.. Edit Windows\K-Mania.Ini file:

[Options]

Always On Top=1

Icon Visible=1

Then exit Kleptomania if it is running and load it again.

 Q?.. How can I capture underlined text?

 A!.. Kleptomania cannot capture underlined text, which is common in internet hyperlinks. If you are strived to capture web hyperlinks in the browser, switch hyperlink underlining off. To do it for MS Internet Explorer 4, go to

View | Internet Options | Advanced | Browsing | Underline links

 and switch it to Never or Hover mode. For Netscape 4.5, go to

Edit | Preferences | Appearance | Colors | Underline links

 and uncheck it.

 Q?.. Kleptomania does not recognize umlauts, please help.

 A!.. We are testing the version with umlauts supported. In beta mode, you could try now to change Windows\K-Mania.Ini file

[Recognition]

Chars=\21-\7Fõôö¤¥¦

Specify the characters you require one by one, without spaces, after \21-\7F, like in the example (shown for Sweden). You can use two digits hexadecimal ASCII codes to define characters by inserting a leading backslash. Then exit Kleptomania if it is running. Load it again and rebuild the font database. Please inform us the language you are trying to recognize and the best Chars= specification you've tried. Write us your experience with umlauts enabled. You can always return to default settings specifying Chars=\21-\7F and rebuilding the font database or just reinstalling the Kleptomania.

For German umlauts use this settings:

Chars=\21-\7F\8E\99\9A\84\94\81\E1