Have you ever wanted to copy some text from a dialog box which doesn’t provide such functionality?
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Windows


Similar to TextGrabber (MacOS). Not tested yet (2026-09)
Have you ever wanted to copy some text from a dialog box which doesn’t provide such functionality?


GetWindowText lets you grab text from static system messages via drag-and-drop. The program lets you work with most windows containing text including Edit, Static, Groupbox - Controls, etc.

Text Grab is a minimal optical character recognition (OCR) utility for Windows 10/11 which makes all visible text available to be copied.




WindowTextExtractor allows you to get a text from any window of an operating system including microsoft office programs, console windows and etc. It can recover password stored behind asterisks (*****) from most of the windows apps.




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