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 Snagit, Adobe Acrobat DC, ABBYY FineReader PDF and Spectacle.

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  1. 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
     
  2. 💥 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
     
  3. 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

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  4. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  5. HotShots icon
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    Hotshots is a screenshot tool with some editing features. It is particularly suitable for writing documentation (as used in the following chapters) but you can use it to highlight some details on a map image or what ever you want.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  6. OCR Reader is an image to text converter program that allows you to extract text from PNG, JPEG, TIFF, WEBP, and BMP image files using Optical Character Recognition.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  7. Universal Copy is the fastest way to copy text on Android, even from the apps that won’t let you or inside images.

    78 Universal Copy alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Android
    • Android Tablet
     
  8. Pocket Scanner icon
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    Pocket Scanner Ultimate is the stand-alone version of Kdan’s Pocket Scanner series. Search “Pocket Scanner Cloud” in the App Store and try out the app & cloud services for free!

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
  9. FlyScreen icon
     1 like

    FlyScreen is a powerful screenshot manager for iOS. Search your screenshots, copy text and links, organize by tags, and more.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
  10. 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
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
     
  11. SysExporter icon
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    SysExporter utility allows you to grab the data stored in standard list-views, tree-views, list boxes, combo boxes, text-boxes, and WebBrowser/HTML controls from almost any application running on your system, and export it to text, HTML or XML file.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  12. WatchOCR icon
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    WatchOCR is an open source OCR server that creates searchable pdfs from images in a watched folder.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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