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Capture2text is described as 'Capture2Text enables users to quickly OCR a portion of the screen using a keyboard shortcut' and is a screenshot capture tool in the photos & graphics category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Capture2text for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, iPhone, Android and iPad apps. The best Capture2text alternative is Greenshot, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Capture2text are OSS Document Scanner, Snagit, GImageReader and NormCap.



Quickly extract text from almost any source: youtube, screencasts, PDFs, webpages, photos, etc. Grab the image and get the text.



PDNob Image Translator instantly extracts and translates text from images and scans, making it easy to access information across languages.



PDF and OCR publishing software (optical character recognition) for MAC & WINDOWS. Do you dream of an intelligent PDF and OCR solution to intuitively manage your documents? You've found it.


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 extract the text to copy and paste in seconds.




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.

ABBYY TextGrabber easily and quickly digitizes fragments of printed text and turns the recognized result into action: call, email, follow links, find on maps, translate into 100+ languages, edit, voice over and share in any convenient way.



KanjiTomo is a OCR program for identifying Japanese text from images. It is optimized for accurate kanji recognition.


Main point of this app is to scan or select existing PDF documents simply using intent or chooser. Other apps require payment to access their api/sdk or simply don't have a possible way to do it. So they rely on switching between an app ,file chooser and a scanner.



SikuliX automates anything you see on the screen of your desktop computer running Windows, Mac or some Linux/Unix. It uses image recognition.



Boxoft Screen OCR is fast and easy-to-use software which helps to extract any area on your screen, recognize every character and then save as TXT file. Price: 27 USD. The smart tool enables you to select text from anywhere on the screen, including areas that you cannot highlight...

Sikuli is great, but it is an automation tool and it does completely different things than Capture2text.