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. You can use Easy Screen OCR to capture a snapshot and start OCR process. this program will detect the text from the image and start OCR process immediately. You can extract the text to copy and paste in seconds.

    108 Easy Screen OCR alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Android
    • iPhone
     
  2. Text recognition finally made easy, super efficient and confidential (no server, your data stays on your device). Textify analyzes images, recognizes text, and creates PDF files with the text integrated such that the files are searchable. Or you can simply export to a .txt file.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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    Kleptomania lets you select text anywhere on the screen, including areas that you cannot highlight with your mouse, such as columns of data from a word processor or error messages from any Windows program.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  4. Boxoft Screen OCR is fast and easy-to-use software which helps to extract any area on your screen, recognize every character and then save as TXT file. Price: 27 USD. The smart tool enables you to select text from anywhere on the screen, including areas that you cannot highlight...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  5. Hawkr icon
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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  7. LudyLens icon
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    LudyLens is the fastest screen OCR app for Mac. Capture text from videos, images, PDFs, or any app. Pin it. Edit it. 100% on-device.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  8. ZenOCR icon
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    ZenOCR is a menu bar OCR app for macOS. Trigger it with a global shortcut to capture any part of the screen, or drag an image or PDF onto it, and it extracts the text instantly. It can convert PDFs to Markdown while preserving tables and math (LaTeX), which makes it handy for...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  9. Snip2Field is a Windows utility for anyone who copies data off invoices and PDFs. Press a hotkey, drag a box over an IBAN, amount, date or invoice number, and it runs OCR on just that region and copies the result — no retyping.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  10. Scan all the text on screen and translate them all at once.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  11. Quilt is your utility for effortlessly turning anything on your screen from books in apps like Apple Books, HTML slides or textbooks even into a PDF with custom keybinds or mouse clicks.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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