Kaizen OCR is a free, lightweight desktop app for Windows that lets you extract text from images, screenshots in seconds.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Windows


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


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.



OwlOCR offers simple optical character recognition of text in PDF files, images or on-screen and converts that to plain text.




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.



ABBYY TextGrabber is the most popular Android, iPhone, iPad & Android Tablet alternative to Grab2Text.
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.




img2txt.com is the most popular Web-based alternative to Grab2Text.
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.




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.




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.


Boxoft Screen OCR is fast and easy-to-use software which helps to extract any area on your screen, recognize every character and then save as TXT file. Price: 27 USD. The smart tool enables you to select text from anywhere on the screen, including areas that you cannot highlight...
