
NormCap is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Textify.
NormCap is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Textify.
- NormCap is Free and Open Source
- NormCap is Privacy focused and Lightweight
Textify is described as 'Have you ever wanted to copy some text from a dialog box which doesn’t provide such functionality?' and is an app in the os & utilities category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Textify for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Linux, Android and iPhone apps. The best Textify alternative is NormCap, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Textify are Crow Translate, Capture2text, Text Lens and TextSniper.

NormCap is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Textify.
NormCap is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Textify.
Crow Translate is a simple and lightweight translator programmed in C++ / Qt that allows to translate and speak text using Google, Yandex and Bing translate API.




Capture2Text enables users to quickly OCR a portion of the screen using a keyboard shortcut.




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 Textify.
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.






Text Grab is a minimal optical character recognition (OCR) utility for Windows 10/11 which makes all visible text available to be copied.




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.

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




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.



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


ABBYY Screenshot Reader has an efficient and easy to understand user interface and text selection method.