Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux



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.




Kaizen OCR is a free, lightweight desktop app for Windows that lets you extract text from images, screenshots in seconds.


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.



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

OwlOCR offers simple optical character recognition of text in PDF files, images or on-screen and converts that to plain text.




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.



ABBYY TextGrabber is the most popular Android, iPhone, iPad & Android Tablet alternative to TextGlance.
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.

img2txt.com is an online OCR service that allows you to get text from a picture or scanned page.




img2txt.com is the most popular Web-based alternative to TextGlance.
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.




WatchOCR is an open source OCR server that creates searchable pdfs from images in a watched folder.

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.



