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, Trex and dpScreenOCR.

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  2. Trex icon
     7 likes

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  3. TextSniper icon
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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.

    58 TextSniper alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  4. Text Grab icon
     6 likes

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  5. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. GetWindowText icon
     10 likes

    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
     
  7. Textify icon
     23 likes

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

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. SikuliX icon
     7 likes

    SikuliX automates anything you see on the screen of your desktop computer running Windows, Mac or some Linux/Unix. It uses image recognition.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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