Screen OCR Alternatives for Mac

Screen OCR is not available for Mac but there are plenty of alternatives that runs on macOS with similar functionality. The best Mac alternative is Greenshot, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to Screen OCR and 18 are available for Mac so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Mac alternatives to Screen OCR are Adobe Acrobat DC, ABBYY FineReader PDF, Snagit and NormCap.

Screen OCR alternatives are mainly Screenshot Capture Tools but may also be Document Scanners or Image Scanners. Filter by these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of Screen OCR.

Screen OCR

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Screenshot Capture Tool

Screen OCR is a screen capture and character recognition tool. You can use Screen OCR in any way you are most comfortable...

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Greenshot
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Freemium • Open Source
Screenshot Capture Tool
Image Editor
Mac
Windows
198 Greenshot alternatives
Greenshot is a light-weight screenshot tool optimized for productivity with Optical Character Recognition (OCR) support. Save a screenshot or a part of the screen to a file within a second or load it up to an Internet-picture-storage and get a public accessible URL (Confluence...
- - Greenshot is the most popular Windows & Mac alternative to Screen OCR.
- - Greenshot is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Screen OCR.
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Greenshot Features
1. LightweightGreenshot consumes less device resources compared to similar apps.
2. Annotate ScreenshotEdit and annotate a screenshot with various editing tools and options.
3. Ad-freeGreenshot doesn't contain any form of external advertising.
4. No registration requiredYou can use most of the features in Greenshot without registration.
5. OCRExtract the text from a screen capture or file and paste it into another document for edits.
6. Works OfflineGreenshot can be used without the need to connect to the internet.
7. Upload ScreenshotUpload your screenhots directly to the cloud in order to easily share them with others.
8. Full-page ScreenshotGreenshot can capture complete (scrolling) web pages from your web browser.
9. PortableGreenshot can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
Image Annotations
Usability
Customizable
GPLv3
Edit screenshots
Screenshot OCR
Multiple languages
Data portability
Enumerate steps
Adobe Acrobat DC
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Paid • Proprietary
PDF Editor
PDF Reader
Document Manager
Mac
Windows
Online
280 Adobe Acrobat DC alternatives
Make your job easier with Adobe Acrobat DC, the trusted PDF creator. Use Acrobat to convert, edit, and sign PDF files at your desk or on the go.
- - Adobe Acrobat DC is the most popular Web-based alternative to Screen OCR.
- - Adobe Acrobat DC is the most popular commercial alternative to Screen OCR.
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Adobe Acrobat DC Features
1. Fill PDF FormsAdobe Acrobat DC supports forms in PDF files.
2. PDF annotationAdobe Acrobat DC support PDF Annotation for highlighting, notes etc
3. Cloud SyncSync your data (notes, documents, bookmarks, etc.) across your different devices and to the cloud.
4. Sign PDF filesAdobe Acrobat DC support signing a PDF document digitally on a touch screen etc.
5. Combine PDFCombine, merge and arrange PDF files into one document.
6. Split PDF filesAdobe Acrobat DC can split PDF files into multiple documents.
Edit PDF
PDF OCR
Text editing
Signing PDF Documents
Split and merge PDF files
Text Highlighting
Publishing
Create PDF files
Extract images
Print to PDF
ABBYY FineReader PDF
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Paid • Proprietary
Mac
Windows
Online
81 ABBYY FineReader PDF alternatives
ABBYY FineReader PDF is an OCR software that provides unmatched text recognition accuracy and conversion capabilities, virtually eliminating retyping and reformatting of documents. Up to 190 languages are supported for text recognition.
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ABBYY FineReader PDF Features
1. OCRExtract the text from a screen capture or file and paste it into another document for edits.
2. PDF annotationABBYY FineReader PDF support PDF Annotation for highlighting, notes etc
3. LightweightABBYY FineReader PDF consumes less device resources compared to similar apps.
4. Sign PDF filesABBYY FineReader PDF support signing a PDF document digitally on a touch screen etc.
Convert PDF to Word document
Side-by-Side Comparison
Edit PDF
PDF OCR
Convert PDF to image
Create PDF files
Image to text
Jpg to text
Convert PDF to Excel document
Document creation
Snagit
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Paid • Proprietary
Screenshot Capture Tool
Screen Casting Tool
Mac
Windows
188 Snagit alternatives
The ultimate screen capture tool. With Snagit’s capture, edit, organize and share technology… it’s easy to create engaging visuals that grab attention and keep it. Let images do the talking for you.
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Snagit Features
1. Full-page ScreenshotSnagit can capture complete (scrolling) web pages from your web browser.
2. OCRExtract the text from a screen capture or file and paste it into another document for edits.
3. Annotate ScreenshotEdit and annotate a screenshot with various editing tools and options.
4. Upload ScreenshotUpload your screenhots directly to the cloud in order to easily share them with others.
Edit screenshots
Upload directly to Dropbox
Multiple languages
Freeform capture
Upload directly to YouTube
NormCap
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Free • Open Source
Screenshot Capture Tool
Mac
Windows
Linux
49 NormCap alternatives
OCR powered screen-capture tool to capture information instead of images.
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NormCap Features
1. OCRExtract the text from a screen capture or file and paste it into another document for edits.
2. Support for Multiple MonitorsNormCap supports the use of multiple displays.
3. PortableNormCap can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
Cross-Platform
Screenshot OCR
High-dpi support
Image to text
CamScanner
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Freemium • Proprietary
Document Scanner
Image Scanner
Mac
Windows
Online
Android
iPhone
Android Tablet
iPad
105 CamScanner alternatives
CamScanner turns your phone into a portable scanner. Archive all your paper documents, receipts, notes, whiteboard discussions anywhere and anytime. Camscanner's Smart Image cropping and Image enhancement algorithm ensures the scanned images are perfectly clear and...
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CamScanner Features
1. Annotate ScreenshotEdit and annotate a screenshot with various editing tools and options.
2. Mobile ScannerCamScanner can use your mobile camera to quickly scan documents and photos.
3. No registration requiredYou can use most of the features in CamScanner without registration.
Export to PDF
Scanner
PDF OCR
Scan to PDF
Sync with Google Drive
Sync with Dropbox
Document structure management
Support for Batch Mode
Client side encryption
CopyFish
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Free • Open Source
Document Scanner
Mac
Windows
Linux
Microsoft Edge
Google Chrome
Firefox
71 CopyFish alternatives
Copy, paste and translate text from any image, video or PDF.
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CopyFish Features
1. OCRExtract the text from a screen capture or file and paste it into another document for edits.
2. No registration requiredYou can use most of the features in CopyFish without registration.
PDF OCR
Screenshot OCR
Scanner
Scan to word
Text Translation
Scan to PDF
Process scanning
Image to text
TextSniper
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Paid • Proprietary
Mac
45 TextSniper alternatives
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.
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TextSniper Features
1. OCRExtract the text from a screen capture or file and paste it into another document for edits.
Screenshot to text
OwlOCR
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Freemium • Proprietary
Mac
87 OwlOCR alternatives
OwlOCR offers simple optical character recognition of text in PDF files, images or on-screen and converts that to plain text. All conversion is done securely on-device - none of your images or files are sent to third-party services in the cloud as most applications do.
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OwlOCR Features
1. OCRExtract the text from a screen capture or file and paste it into another document for edits.
TextShot
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Free • Proprietary
Mac
43 TextShot alternatives
TextShot is the ultimate tool for extracting text from images.
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TextShot Features
1. OCRExtract the text from a screen capture or file and paste it into another document for edits.
Multiple languages
Textify - Image to Text PDF
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Free Personal • Proprietary
Mac
15 Textify - Image to Text PDF alternatives
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.
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Textify - Image to Text PDF Features
1. OCRExtract the text from a screen capture or file and paste it into another document for edits.
PDF OCR
SikuliX
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Free • Open Source
Mac
Windows
Linux
63 SikuliX alternatives
SikuliX automates anything you see on the screen of your desktop computer running Windows, Mac or some Linux/Unix. It uses image recognition powered by OpenCV to identify GUI components. This is handy in cases when there is no easy access to a GUI's internals or the source...
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SikuliX Features
1. OCRExtract the text from a screen capture or file and paste it into another document for edits.