TextShot Alternatives

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, NormCap, Crow Translate and Open Scanner.

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  1. Google Stack icon
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    Get rid of paper clutter with Stack. Stack is a PDF scanner, document organizer, and detail finder. All in one.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Android
     
  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. 💥 Capture and share your ideas quickly and easily with Screenie - the ultimate screenshot tool for designers, developers, and anyone who needs to share information efficiently. Simply take a snap, annotate it, and copy it to the clipboard in seconds.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  5. 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
     
  6. OwlOCR icon
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    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
     
  7. Pocket Scanner icon
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    Pocket Scanner Ultimate is the stand-alone version of Kdan’s Pocket Scanner series. Search “Pocket Scanner Cloud” in the App Store and try out the app & cloud services for free!

    115 Pocket Scanner alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
  8. 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
     
  9. 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
     
  10. 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
     
  11. WatchOCR icon
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    WatchOCR is an open source OCR server that creates searchable pdfs from images in a watched folder.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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