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 GImageReader, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Grab2Text are NormCap, Capture2text, Text Lens and dpScreenOCR.

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  1. TextShot icon
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    TextShot is the ultimate tool for extracting text from images.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  2. TextGlance icon
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    TextGlance 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.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  4. Vizion icon
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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  5. OwlOCR icon
     5 likes

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

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  6. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
     
  7. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  9. WatchOCR icon
     3 likes

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  10. 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.

    24 Textify - Image to Text PDF alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  11. 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.

    106 Easy Screen OCR alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Android
    • iPhone
     
  12. Screen OCR icon
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    Screen OCR is a screen capture and character recognition tool. You can use Screen OCR in any way you are most comfortable with. It can be window selection, scrolling capture, simple cursor capture or rectangular selection.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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