Screen OCR Alternatives

Screen OCR is described as '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' and is a screenshot capture tool in the photos & graphics category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Screen OCR for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Linux, Android and iPhone apps. The best Screen OCR alternative is Greenshot, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Screen OCR are Adobe Acrobat DC, Snagit, Spectacle and ABBYY FineReader PDF.

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  1. Text Grab icon
     6 likes

    Text Grab is a minimal optical character recognition (OCR) utility for Windows 10/11 which makes all visible text available to be copied.

    74 Text Grab alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  2. TextSniper icon
     13 likes

    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.

    65 TextSniper alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  3. Notebloc icon
     14 likes

    Document scanner app. Free. Save and share as PDF or JPG.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
     
  4. Adobe Scan icon
     14 likes

    The Adobe Scan scanner app turns your device into a powerful portable scanner that recognizes text automatically (OCR) and allows you to save to multiple file formats including PDF and JPEG.

    142 Adobe Scan alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
     
  5. CopyFish icon
     19 likes

    Copy, paste and translate text from any image, video or PDF.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Microsoft Edge
    • Google Chrome
    • Mozilla Firefox
     
  6. SikuliX icon
     7 likes

    SikuliX automates anything you see on the screen of your desktop computer running Windows, Mac or some Linux/Unix. It uses image recognition.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  7. Google Stack icon
     1 like

    Get rid of paper clutter with Stack. Stack is a PDF scanner, document organizer, and detail finder. All in one.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Android
     
  8. TextShot icon
     1 like

    TextShot is the ultimate tool for extracting text from images.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  9. 💥 Capture and share your ideas quickly and easily with Screenie - the ultimate screenshot tool for designers, developers, and anyone who needs to share information efficiently. Simply take a snap, annotate it, and copy it to the clipboard in seconds.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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