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Text Lens Alternatives
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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Kaizen OCR is a free, lightweight desktop app for Windows that lets you extract text from images, screenshots in seconds.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Windows
Never get annoyed by unselectable text on websites, PDFs, images or system user interfaces again. Just select the region of your screen in the same manner as you would take a screenshot and find all recognized text in your clipboard ready to get pasted anywhere.
Cost / License
- Pay once
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac
67 SikuliX alternativesSikuliX 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
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
103 OwlOCR alternativesOwlOCR offers simple optical character recognition of text in PDF files, images or on-screen and converts that to plain text.
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ABBYY TextGrabber easily and quickly digitizes fragments of printed text and turns the recognized result into action: call, email, follow links, find on maps, translate into 100+ languages, edit, voice over and share in any convenient way.
Cost / License
- Freemium (Pay once)
- Proprietary
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- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
ABBYY TextGrabber is the most popular Android, iPhone, iPad & Android Tablet alternative to Text Lens.
- ABBYY TextGrabber is Freemium and Proprietary
WindowTextExtractor allows you to get a text from any window of an operating system including microsoft office programs, console windows and etc. It can recover password stored behind asterisks (*****) from most of the windows apps.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Windows
img2txt.com is an online OCR service that allows you to get text from a picture or scanned page.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Online
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img2txt.com is the most popular Web-based alternative to Text Lens.
- img2txt.com is Free and Proprietary
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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WatchOCR is an open source OCR server that creates searchable pdfs from images in a watched folder.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Linux
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.
Cost / License
- Pay once or Subscription
- Proprietary
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Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Android
- iPhone
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Screen OCR is a 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.
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