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'. There are more than 10 alternatives to GetWindowText for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Android, iPhone and Android Tablet. The best alternative is Google Lens, which is free. Other great apps like GetWindowText are ABBYY Screenshot Reader (Paid), Crow Translate (Free, Open Source), Capture2text (Free, Open Source) and TextSniper (Paid).
- With Google Lens you can get information about items around you, like landmarks, posters, or barcodes, using your phone's camera.
- Free • Proprietary
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- Screenshot Reader is a smart OCR-screenshot application for capturing text and images from any area on your PC screen and extracting text from them or just saving as an image. Prize: 9.99 USD.
- Paid • Proprietary
- Windows
- 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.
- Free • Open Source
- Windows
- Linux
- Capture2Text enables users to quickly OCR a portion of the screen using a keyboard shortcut.
- Free • Open Source
- Windows
- 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.
- OCR powered screen-capture tool to capture information instead of images.
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- 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.
- 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.
- Universal Copy is the fastest way to copy text on Android, even from the apps that won’t let you or inside images.No screenshots yet