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GImageReader is the most popular Windows & Linux alternative to TextGlance.
GImageReader is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to TextGlance.
- GImageReader is Free and Open Source
TextGlance Alternatives
TextGlance is described as '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' and is an app in the os & utilities category. There are more than 25 alternatives to TextGlance for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Linux, Android and iPhone apps. The best TextGlance alternative is GImageReader, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like TextGlance are NormCap, Capture2text, Text Lens and dpScreenOCR.
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NormCap is the most popular Mac alternative to TextGlance.
- NormCap is Free and Open Source
59 Capture2text alternativesCapture2Text enables users to quickly OCR a portion of the screen using a keyboard shortcut.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Windows
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Extract text from anywhere on your screen (OCR). Perfect for capturing text from videos, PDFs, presentations, or any app where copying isn't possible.
Text Lens is the most popular commercial alternative to TextGlance.
- Text Lens is Paid and Proprietary
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
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Platforms
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
62 Text Grab alternativesText Grab is a minimal optical character recognition (OCR) utility for Windows 10/11 which makes all visible text available to be copied.
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Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Mac
62 ABBYY Screenshot Reader alternativesScreenshot 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.
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54 TextSniper alternativesTextSniper 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.
Cost / License
- Pay once
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac
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
22 Textify alternativesHave you ever wanted to copy some text from a dialog box which doesn’t provide such functionality?
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Windows
50 Frog - Extract Text alternativesQuickly extract text from almost any source: youtube, screencasts, PDFs, webpages, photos, etc. Grab the image and get the text.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Linux
- Flathub
- Flatpak
- elementary OS
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