Grab2Text Alternatives

Grab2Text is described as 'Copy text from images or any digital documents (including handwritten text)' and is an app in the os & utilities category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Grab2Text for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Linux, Android and iPhone apps. The best Grab2Text alternative is NormCap, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Grab2Text are GImageReader, Capture2text, Text Lens and dpScreenOCR.

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NormCap
26 likes
OCR powered screen-capture tool to capture information instead of images.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Application type
Screenshot Capture
Platforms
Mac
Windows
Linux
Good alternative?Is NormCap a good alternative to Grab2Text?
GImageReader
75 likes
gImageReader is a simple Gtk/Qt front-end to the Tesseract OCR Engine.
114 GImageReader alternatives
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Application type
Screenshot Capture
Origin
Switzerland
Platforms
Windows
Linux
Switzerland
Good alternative?Is GImageReader a good alternative to Grab2Text?
Capture2text
34 likes
Capture2Text enables users to quickly OCR a portion of the screen using a keyboard shortcut.
73 Capture2text alternatives
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Application type
Screenshot Capture
Origin
United States
Alerts
Discontinued
Platforms
Windows
United States
+9
Good alternative?Is Capture2text a good alternative to Grab2Text?
Text Lens
5 likes
Extract text from anywhere on your screen (OCR). Perfect for capturing text from videos, PDFs, presentations, or any app where copying isn't possible.
Cost / License
Paid
Proprietary
Application type
Screenshot Capture
Origin
Norway
Platforms
Mac
Norway
Good alternative?Is Text Lens a good alternative to Grab2Text?
dpScreenOCR
11 likes
A program to recognize text on the screen.
63 dpScreenOCR alternatives
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (Zlib)
Application typeApplication types
Screenshot Capture
Document Scanner
Platforms
Windows
Linux
BSD
Good alternative?Is dpScreenOCR a good alternative to Grab2Text?
Text Grab
6 likes
Text Grab is a minimal optical character recognition (OCR) utility for Windows 10/11 which makes all visible text available to be copied.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (MIT)
Application type
Screenshot Capture
Origin
United States
Platforms
Windows
United States
+1
Good alternative?Is Text Grab a good alternative to Grab2Text?
TextSniper
13 likes
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.
72 TextSniper alternatives
Cost / License
Paid
Proprietary
Origin
United States
Platforms
Mac
United States
Good alternative?Is TextSniper a good alternative to Grab2Text?
ABBYY Screenshot Reader
27 likes
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.
78 ABBYY Screenshot Reader alternatives
Cost / License
Paid
Proprietary
Application type
Screenshot Capture
Origin
Russia
Platforms
Windows
Russia
+1
Good alternative?Is this a good alternative to Grab2Text?
GetWindowText
10 likes
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.
26 GetWindowText alternatives
Cost / License
Free
Proprietary
Origin
Germany
EU
Platforms
Windows
Germany
EU
Good alternative?Is GetWindowText a good alternative to Grab2Text?
Textify
25 likes
Have you ever wanted to copy some text from a dialog box which doesn’t provide such functionality?
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Platforms
Windows
Good alternative?Is Textify a good alternative to Grab2Text?
Frog - Extract Text
4 likes
Quickly extract text from almost any source: youtube, screencasts, PDFs, webpages, photos, etc. Grab the image and get the text.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (MIT)
Origin
Estonia
EU
Platforms
Linux
Flathub
Flatpak
elementary OS
Estonia
EU
Good alternative?Is Frog - Extract Text a good alternative to Grab2Text?
SikuliX
7 likes
SikuliX automates anything you see on the screen of your desktop computer running Windows, Mac or some Linux/Unix. It uses image recognition.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (MIT)
Origin
Germany
EU
Platforms
Mac
Windows
Linux
Germany
EU
Good alternative?Is SikuliX a good alternative to Grab2Text?