OCR powered screen-capture tool to capture information instead of images.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux

Apps similar to LudyLens include NormCap, which is free and open source. Other options are GImageReader, Capture2text, Trex and Text Lens. Screenshot Capture Tools like LudyLens are a crowded field, with more than 25 alternatives for Mac, Windows, Linux, Android and iPhone.
OCR powered screen-capture tool to capture information instead of images.

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Capture2Text enables users to quickly OCR a portion of the screen using a keyboard shortcut.




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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.




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.



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.




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.

Quickly extract text from almost any source: youtube, screencasts, PDFs, webpages, photos, etc. Grab the image and get the text.


