TextDetective is described as 'Text Detective finds and reads text in printed documents within seconds using your iPhone’s camera. The detected text can easily be read, edited, copied and pasted into documents, emails or other apps. It even stores all the scanned text in a history, which allows you to refer' and is an app in the office & productivity category. There are more than 25 alternatives to TextDetective for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, iPhone, Web-based and Linux apps. The best TextDetective alternative is Adobe Acrobat DC. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Tesseract or Outline Knowledge Organizer. Other great apps like TextDetective are ABBYY FineReader PDF, CopyFish, FreeOCR and Online OCR.