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- Free
- Proprietary
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- Mac
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 TextSniper.
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TextGlance makes it effortless to grab text from anywhere on your Mac. See text you can't select in videos, images, or PDFs? Just drag a lasso and get editable text instantly. On-device OCR, no cloud uploads.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac
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
- Paid
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac
OwlOCR offers simple optical character recognition of text in PDF files, images or on-screen and converts that to plain text.
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78 Universal Copy alternativesUniversal Copy is the fastest way to copy text on Android, even from the apps that won’t let you or inside images.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Android
- Android Tablet
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
- Proprietary
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Platforms
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
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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 (MIT)
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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WatchOCR is an open source OCR server that creates searchable pdfs from images in a watched folder.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Linux
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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