Text Lens AlternativesScreenshot Capture Tools and other similar apps like Text Lens

Text Lens is described as 'Extract text from anywhere on your screen (OCR). Perfect for capturing text from videos, PDFs, presentations, or any app where copying isn't possible' and is a screenshot capture tool in the photos & graphics category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Text Lens for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Linux, Android and iPhone apps. The best Text Lens alternative is GImageReader, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Text Lens are NormCap, Capture2text, dpScreenOCR and Text Grab.

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  1. GImageReader icon

    GImageReader

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    gImageReader is a simple Gtk/Qt front-end to the Tesseract OCR Engine.

    89 GImageReader alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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    • GImageReader is the most popular Windows & Linux alternative to Text Lens.

    • GImageReader is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Text Lens.

    • GImageReader is Free and Open SourceText Lens is Paid and Proprietary
  2. NormCap icon

    NormCap

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    OCR powered screen-capture tool to capture information instead of images.

    59 NormCap alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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    • NormCap is the most popular Mac alternative to Text Lens.

    • NormCap is Free and Open SourceText Lens is Paid and Proprietary
    • NormCap is Privacy focusedText Lens is not according to our users
  6. Text Grab icon

    Text Grab

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

    62 Text Grab alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  7. Trex icon

    Trex

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    TRex captures any text right into your Clipboard with magic of OCR.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  9. TextSniper icon

    TextSniper

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    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.

    54 TextSniper alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
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    • TextSniper is the most popular commercial alternative to Text Lens.

    • TextSniper is Paid and ProprietaryText Lens is also Paid and Proprietary
  11. GetWindowText icon

    GetWindowText

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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  12. Textify icon

    Textify

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

    22 Textify alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
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