Grab2Text Alternatives

Grab2Text is described as 'Copy text from images or any digital documents (including handwritten text)' and is an app in the os & utilities category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Grab2Text for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and iPhone apps. The best Grab2Text alternative is GImageReader, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Grab2Text are NormCap, Capture2text, Text Lens and dpScreenOCR.

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  1. GImageReader icon
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    gImageReader is a simple Gtk/Qt front-end to the Tesseract OCR Engine.

    89 GImageReader alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
    • GImageReader is the most popular Windows & Linux alternative to Grab2Text.

    • GImageReader is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Grab2Text.

    • GImageReader is Free and Open SourceGrab2Text is Free and Proprietary
  2. NormCap icon
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    OCR powered screen-capture tool to capture information instead of images.

    60 NormCap alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
    • NormCap is the most popular Mac alternative to Grab2Text.

    • NormCap is Free and Open SourceGrab2Text is Free and Proprietary
    • NormCap is Privacy focused and LightweightGrab2Text is not according to our users
  3. 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

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
    • Text Lens is the most popular commercial alternative to Grab2Text.

    • Text Lens is Paid and ProprietaryGrab2Text is Free and Proprietary
    • Text Lens is LightweightGrab2Text is not according to our users
  4. Text Grab icon
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    Text Grab is a minimal optical character recognition (OCR) utility for Windows 10/11 which makes all visible text available to be copied.

    62 Text Grab alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  5. 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.

    54 TextSniper alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  6. GetWindowText icon
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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  7. Textify icon
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    Have you ever wanted to copy some text from a dialog box which doesn’t provide such functionality?

    22 Textify alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    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

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
    • elementary OS
     
  9. TextShot icon
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    TextShot is the ultimate tool for extracting text from images.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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