Extract text from anywhere on your screen (OCR). Perfect for capturing text from videos, PDFs, presentations, or any app where copying isn't possible.
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Hawkr AlternativesScreenshot Capture Tools and other similar apps like Hawkr
Hawkr is described as 'Ever needed to quickly grab text from an image, a non-selectable PDF, a video, or a website that blocks copying? Hawkr makes it effortless. With a simple keyboard shortcut, you can capture any text visible on your screen and have it instantly copied to your clipboard' and is a screenshot capture tool in the photos & graphics category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Hawkr for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Linux, Web-based and Android apps. The best Hawkr alternative is Text Lens. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try dpScreenOCR or Text Grab. Other great apps like Hawkr are TextSniper, Trex, ABBYY Screenshot Reader and Textify.
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66 Text Grab alternativesText Grab is a minimal optical character recognition (OCR) utility for Windows 10/11 which makes all visible text available to be copied.
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57 TextSniper alternativesTextSniper 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.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac
66 ABBYY Screenshot Reader alternativesScreenshot 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.
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52 Frog - Extract Text alternativesQuickly 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
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac
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
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
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.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac
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