ShareX

ShareX is a free and open source program that lets you capture or record any area of your screen and share it with a single press of a key. It also allows uploading...

Free Open Source Windows Chrome Firefox

409 Like

Greenshot

Small screenshot tool with support for OCR, Office export, annotations, and more.

Freemium $ $ $ Open Source Mac Windows

588 Like

Capture2text

Capture2Text enables users to quickly OCR a portion of the screen using a keyboard shortcut.

Free Open Source Windows

23 Like

Textify

A small tool which allows to copy text from dialogs and controls which don’t allow it otherwise.

• Free alternative, very fast (doesn't seem to use an OCR but a different method) InsaneFromEarth • Jun 2016 • 0 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree   Agree

Free Open Source Windows

16 Like

HotShots

Hotshots is a screenshot tool with some editing features. It is particularly suitable for writing documentation (as used in the following chapters) but you can use it to...

• Discontinued The project seems no longer developed. Last version, 2.2.0, released in September 2014, can be still downloaded from SourceForge

Free Open Source Windows Linux

8 Like

GetWindowText

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...

Free Windows

7 Like

CopyFish

Extract & translate text from images/videos/PDF on any website. Common reasons to extract text from images are if you want to google the text, store it, email it...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Chrome Firefox

8 Like

img2txt.com

img2txt.com is an online OCR service that allows you to get text from a picture or scanned page.

Free Web

12 Like

Chronoscan

Complete suite for document Scanning. Any source: scanners, multifunction printers, e-mails, fax machines, web services or folders. Automatic document classification ...

Free Personal Windows

2 Like

qscreenshot

* Take a screenshot * Edit it with various tools (like draw with pen, add shapes, select area, cut, copy, paste, add text, etc.) * Save image or * Upload image to...

• Discontinued Official Google code page seems abandoned. Last update from Oct 12, 2013.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux

1 Like

Easy Screen OCR

You can use Easy Screen OCR to capture a snapshot and start OCR process. this program will detect the text from the image and start OCR process immediately. You can...

Commercial $ $ $ Windows

2 Like

WatchOCR

WatchOCR is an open source OCR server that creates searchable pdfs from images in a watched folder.

Free Open Source Linux

3 Like

Screen OCR

Screen OCR is a screen capture and character recognition tool. You can use Screen OCR in any way you are most comfortable with. It can be window selection, scrolling...

Commercial Windows

3 Like

Screenshot to Speech

This text to speech application is useful for your computer to read pdfs, scanned images or even kindle books. It extracts the text from any image visible on your...

Commercial $ $ $ Mac

1 Like

JOCR

Apparently JOCR requires Microsoft Office 2003 or 2007 and won't work with Office 2010 (unless you also have an older version and do some tweaking). [1] JOCR...

Free Windows

4 Like