Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD

Text Grab is described as 'Minimal optical character recognition (OCR) utility for Windows 10/11 which makes all visible text available to be copied' and is a screenshot capture tool in the photos & graphics category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Text Grab for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, iPhone, Android and Linux apps. The best Text Grab alternative is ShareX, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Text Grab are Greenshot, OSS Document Scanner, Snagit and GImageReader.

Scan Thing is the quickest way to capture and save anything around you. Scan Thing is available on iOS, iPadOS, and MacOS.



Screenshot Reader is a smart OCR-screenshot application for capturing text and images from any area on your PC screen and extracting text from them or just saving as an image. Prize: 9.99 USD.




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.



GetWindowText lets you grab text from static system messages via drag-and-drop. The program lets you work with most windows containing text including Edit, Static, Groupbox - Controls, etc.




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.






Have you ever wanted to copy some text from a dialog box which doesn’t provide such functionality?


Meet Scanit, a simple yet powerful scanner app that lets you quickly scan any kind of documents and convert them into PDF’s.



Quickly extract text from almost any source: youtube, screencasts, PDFs, webpages, photos, etc. Grab the image and get the text.



The app is 100% FREE, with NO ads and NO data collection. Donations are possible to support the project.


