Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Windows




Apps similar to Grab2Text include NormCap, which is free and open source. Other options are GImageReader, Capture2text, Text Lens and dpScreenOCR. There's no shortage of Screenshot Capture Tools like Grab2Text, with more than 25 alternatives for Mac, Windows, Linux, Android and iPhone.





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.



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.



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


OwlOCR 7 is a macOS OCR app for text you can see but cannot select. Capture a screen region, open an image or PDF, paste supported content, or import a photo or scan from an iPhone or iPad. Apple Vision performs fast on-device recognition.




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.



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.

img2txt.com is an online OCR service that allows you to get text from a picture or scanned page.




WatchOCR is an open source OCR server that creates searchable pdfs from images in a watched folder.

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.




Screen OCR is a screen capture and character recognition tool. You can use Screen OCR in any way you are most comfortable with. It can be window selection, scrolling capture, simple cursor capture or rectangular selection.

