Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Mac



TextShot is described as 'The ultimate tool for extracting text from images' and is an app in the office & productivity category. There are more than 50 alternatives to TextShot for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Android, iPhone and Linux apps. The best TextShot alternative is OSS Document Scanner, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like TextShot are GImageReader, Crow Translate, NormCap and OpenScan.



TextSniper 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.



Screenshot 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.







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.

The Adobe Scan scanner app turns your device into a powerful portable scanner that recognizes text automatically (OCR) and allows you to save to multiple file formats including PDF and JPEG.




Have you ever wanted to copy some text from a dialog box which doesn’t provide such functionality?


Meet Scanit, a simple yet powerful scanner app that lets you quickly scan any kind of documents and convert them into PDF’s.



Quickly extract text from almost any source: youtube, screencasts, PDFs, webpages, photos, etc. Grab the image and get the text.



The app is 100% FREE, with NO ads and NO data collection. Donations are possible to support the project.






Main point of this app is to scan or select existing PDF documents simply using intent or chooser. Other apps require payment to access their api/sdk or simply don't have a possible way to do it. So they rely on switching between an app ,file chooser and a scanner.
