GetWindowText Alternatives

GetWindowText is described as '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' and is an app in the office & productivity category. There are more than 10 alternatives to GetWindowText for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Linux, Android and iPhone apps. The best GetWindowText alternative is NormCap, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like GetWindowText are Crow Translate, Capture2text, Text Lens and Text Grab.

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  1. Crow Translate icon
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    Crow Translate is a simple and lightweight translator programmed in C++ / Qt that allows to translate and speak text using Google, Yandex and Bing translate API.

    82 Crow Translate alternatives

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    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
     
  2. Text Lens icon
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    Extract text from anywhere on your screen (OCR). Perfect for capturing text from videos, PDFs, presentations, or any app where copying isn't possible.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
     
  3. Text Grab icon
     6 likes

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

    66 Text Grab alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Windows
     
  4. TextSniper icon
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    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.

    57 TextSniper alternatives

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  5. Textify icon
     23 likes

    Have you ever wanted to copy some text from a dialog box which doesn’t provide such functionality?

    24 Textify alternatives

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
    • elementary OS
     
  7. TextShot icon
     1 like

    TextShot is the ultimate tool for extracting text from images.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  8. TextGlance icon
     1 like

    TextGlance makes it effortless to grab text from anywhere on your Mac. See text you can't select in videos, images, or PDFs? Just drag a lasso and get editable text instantly. On-device OCR, no cloud uploads.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  9. Kaizen OCR icon
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    Kaizen OCR is a free, lightweight desktop app for Windows that lets you extract text from images, screenshots in seconds.

    35 Kaizen OCR alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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