Capture2text Alternatives for Mac

Capture2text is not available for Mac but there are plenty of alternatives that runs on macOS with similar functionality. The best Mac alternative is Greenshot, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to Capture2text and 14 are available for Mac so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Mac alternatives to Capture2text are Snagit, CamScanner, NormCap and TextSniper.

Capture2text alternatives are mainly Screenshot Capture Tools but may also be Document Scanners or Image Scanners. Filter by these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of Capture2text.

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Capture2text

Free • Open Source
Screenshot Capture Tool

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

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Greenshot
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Freemium • Open Source
Screenshot Capture Tool
Image Editor
Mac
Windows
197 Greenshot alternatives
Greenshot is a light-weight screenshot tool optimized for productivity with Optical Character Recognition (OCR) support. Save a screenshot or a part of the screen to a file within a second or load it up to an Internet-picture-storage and get a public accessible URL (Confluence...
- - Greenshot is the most popular Windows & Mac alternative to Capture2text.
- - Greenshot is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Capture2text.
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Greenshot Features
1. LightweightGreenshot consumes less device resources compared to similar apps.
2. Annotate ScreenshotEdit and annotate a screenshot with various editing tools and options.
3. No registration requiredYou can use most of the features in Greenshot without registration.
4. Ad-freeGreenshot doesn't contain any form of external advertising.
5. Full-page ScreenshotGreenshot can capture complete (scrolling) web pages from your web browser.
6. PortableGreenshot can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
7. Upload ScreenshotUpload your screenhots directly to the cloud in order to easily share them with others.
Image Annotations
Usability
Customizable
GPLv3
Edit screenshots
Screenshot OCR
Enumerate steps
Multiple languages
Data portability
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Most users think Greenshot is a great Capture2text alternative.
Snagit
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Paid • Proprietary
Screenshot Capture Tool
Mac
Windows
185 Snagit alternatives
The ultimate screen capture tool. With Snagit’s capture, edit, organize and share technology… it’s easy to create engaging visuals that grab attention and keep it. Let images do the talking for you.
- - Snagit is the most popular commercial alternative to Capture2text.
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Snagit Features
1. Full-page ScreenshotSnagit can capture complete (scrolling) web pages from your web browser.
2. OCRExtract the text from a screen capture or file and paste it into another document for edits.
3. Annotate ScreenshotEdit and annotate a screenshot with various editing tools and options.
4. Upload ScreenshotUpload your screenhots directly to the cloud in order to easily share them with others.
Edit screenshots
Upload directly to Dropbox
Multiple languages
Freeform capture
Upload directly to YouTube
CamScanner
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Freemium • Proprietary
Document Scanner
Image Scanner
Mac
Windows
Online
Android
iPhone
Android Tablet
iPad
102 CamScanner alternatives
CamScanner turns your phone into a portable scanner. Archive all your paper documents, receipts, notes, whiteboard discussions anywhere and anytime. Camscanner's Smart Image cropping and Image enhancement algorithm ensures the scanned images are perfectly clear and...
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CamScanner Features
1. Annotate ScreenshotEdit and annotate a screenshot with various editing tools and options.
2. Mobile ScannerCamScanner can use your mobile camera to quickly scan documents and photos.
3. No registration requiredYou can use most of the features in CamScanner without registration.
Export to PDF
Scanner
PDF OCR
Scan to PDF
Sync with Google Drive
Sync with Dropbox
Document structure management
Support for Batch Mode
Client side encryption
NormCap
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Free • Open Source
Screenshot Capture Tool
Mac
Windows
Linux
47 NormCap alternatives
OCR powered screen-capture tool to capture information instead of images.
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NormCap Features
1. OCRExtract the text from a screen capture or file and paste it into another document for edits.
2. Support for Multiple MonitorsNormCap supports the use of multiple displays.
3. PortableNormCap can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
Cross-Platform
Screenshot OCR
High-dpi support
Image to text
TextSniper
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Paid • Proprietary
Mac
44 TextSniper alternatives
TextSniper is a super useful app to quickly capture unselectable text. Use it to capture and recognize text from presentations, trainings, screencasts,images, pictures, webpages, video tutorials, photos, PDFs etc. Literally from anywhere on your mac's screen.
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TextSniper Features
1. OCRExtract the text from a screen capture or file and paste it into another document for edits.
Screenshot to text
Readiris
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Paid • Proprietary
Mac
Windows
61 Readiris alternatives
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.
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Readiris Features
1. OCRExtract the text from a screen capture or file and paste it into another document for edits.
Image recognition
Convert PDF to Word document
Convert PDF to Excel document
not8
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Free • Proprietary
Project Management Tool
Mac
Windows
Online
Google Chrome
Software as a Service (SaaS)
165 not8 alternatives
not8 enables to write notes directly on the team website, and share them with colleagues. These notes will help to efficiently share feedback and reviews between colleagues, without the necessity of video explanations, long emails or screenshots.
- - not8 is the most popular SaaS alternative to Capture2text.
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not8 Features
1. Real time collaborationMultiple users can work together in not8 simultaneously.
2. Lightweightnot8 consumes less device resources compared to similar apps.
Direct client feedback
Website annotation
Visual feedback
In-built Bug tracking
Design review feedback
Remote Work
User Testing
Textify - Image to Text PDF
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Free Personal • Proprietary
Mac
15 Textify - Image to Text PDF alternatives
Text recognition finally made easy, super efficient and confidential (no server, your data stays on your device). Textify analyzes images, recognizes text, and creates PDF files with the text integrated such that the files are searchable. Or you can simply export to a .txt file.
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Textify - Image to Text PDF Features
1. OCRExtract the text from a screen capture or file and paste it into another document for edits.
PDF OCR
SikuliX
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Free • Open Source
Mac
Windows
Linux
62 SikuliX alternatives
SikuliX automates anything you see on the screen of your desktop computer running Windows, Mac or some Linux/Unix. It uses image recognition powered by OpenCV to identify GUI components. This is handy in cases when there is no easy access to a GUI's internals or the source...
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SikuliX Features
1. OCRExtract the text from a screen capture or file and paste it into another document for edits.
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Sikuli is great, but it is an automation tool and it does completely different things than Capture2text.
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UPDF
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Freemium • Proprietary
Document Scanner
Mac
Windows
Android
iPhone
iPad
99 UPDF alternatives
UPDF is an all-in-one PDF editor that allows you to edit, annotate, convert, protect, OCR, split, crop, and organize PDF pages effortlessly. It's available on Windows, Mac, iOS, and Android.
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UPDF Features
1. Combine PDFCombine, merge and arrange PDF files into one document.
2. Sign PDF filesUPDF support signing a PDF document digitally on a touch screen etc.
3. PDF encryptionUPDF can encrypt and decrypt PDF documents.
4. OCRExtract the text from a screen capture or file and paste it into another document for edits.
5. Mobile ScannerUPDF can use your mobile camera to quickly scan documents and photos.
6. Works OfflineUPDF can be used without the need to connect to the internet.
7. Handwritten NotesUPDF supports writing by hand (or a stylus) and your text will be converted to text.
8. PDF annotationUPDF support PDF Annotation for highlighting, notes etc
9. Split PDF filesUPDF can split PDF files into multiple documents.
Dark Mode
Full-Text Search
Screenshot to Speech
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Paid • Proprietary
Mac
16 Screenshot to Speech alternatives
This text to speech application is useful for your computer to read pdfs, scanned images or even kindle books.
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Screenshot to Speech Features
1. OCRExtract the text from a screen capture or file and paste it into another document for edits.
2. Text to SpeechScreenshot to Speech allows you to transform written text into spoken text.
Screenshot OCR
Vizion
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Paid • Proprietary
Mac
38 Vizion alternatives
Never get annoyed by unselectable text on websites, PDFs, images or system user interfaces again. Just select the region of your screen in the same manner as you would take a screenshot and find all recognized text in your clipboard ready to get pasted anywhere.
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Vizion Features
1. OCRExtract the text from a screen capture or file and paste it into another document for edits.