picatext Alternatives

picatext is described as 'You need to get the text out of an image or from anywhere on your screen? With picatext this is as easy as selecting a file or a screen area. So now you can get the text you need in almost no time. No need to tediously typewrite everything again' and is an app in the office & productivity category. There are more than 10 alternatives to picatext for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Linux, Android and iPhone apps. The best picatext alternative is Text Lens. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Frog - Extract Text or TextShot. Other great apps like picatext are TextSniper, Kaizen OCR, Vizion and OwlOCR.

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  1. 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 Mac alternative to picatext.

    • Text Lens is the most popular commercial alternative to picatext.

    • Text Lens is Paid and Proprietarypicatext is also Paid and Proprietary
    • Text Lens is Lightweightpicatext is not according to our users
  2. 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
     
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    Quickly extract text from almost any source: youtube, screencasts, PDFs, webpages, photos, etc. Grab the image and get the text.

    50 Frog - Extract Text alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
    • elementary OS
     
    • Frog - Extract Text is the most popular Linux alternative to picatext.

    • Frog - Extract Text is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to picatext.

    • Frog - Extract Text is Free and Open Sourcepicatext is Paid and Proprietary
    • Frog - Extract Text is Lightweightpicatext is not according to our users
  4. TextShot icon
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    TextShot is the ultimate tool for extracting text from images.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  5. Kaizen OCR icon
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    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
     
    • Kaizen OCR is the most popular Windows alternative to picatext.

    • Kaizen OCR is Free and Proprietarypicatext is Paid and Proprietary
    • Kaizen OCR is Privacy focused and Lightweightpicatext is not according to our users
  6. Vizion icon
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    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

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

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

    103 OwlOCR alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once or Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

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

    • ABBYY TextGrabber is Freemium and Proprietarypicatext is Paid and Proprietary
  9. Condense icon
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    Typing out has come to a end. Say ‚Hello‘ to Condense. Your easy to use optical character recognition (OCR) application.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  10. Grab2Text icon
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    Copy text from images or any digital documents (including handwritten text).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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    With TextGrabber you can easily copy text anywhere on your screen.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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    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 (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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