Grab2Text Alternatives & Competitors

Extract text from anywhere on your screen (OCR). Perfect for capturing text from videos, PDFs, presentations, or any app where copying isn't possible.

Instantly extract any text from your Mac's screen.

Key TextSniper features:

Optical Character Recognition OCR PDF Text Recognition Text to speech

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Key ASocks features:

HTTP Socks5 ASN targeting Pay as you go

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Discover Kaizen OCR – the best OFFLINE OCR software of 2025. Extract text instantly from images, screenshots. Supports 100+ languages without internet.

Key Kaizen OCR features:

Offline OCR Processing 100+ Language Support High Accuracy Recognition Multi-format Support

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picatext is a lightweight and slim OCR tool for OSX.

gImageReader is a simple Gtk/Qt front-end to the Tesseract OCR Engine.

Key GImageReader features:

Open Source Multi-Platform Support Tesseract Integration User-Friendly Interface

NormCap is one of the smart programs that allows optical character recognition, enabling you to mark anything on the desktop to retrieve the text part of it and get it copied to the Windows clipboard.

Key NormCap features:

Cross-platform Compatibility Open Source OCR Accuracy Ease of Installation

Trex is a rich-featured application that provides you an opportunity to translate the English text into multiple languages like Spanish, French, German, and Czech, Polish foreign languages.

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

Key Capture2text features:

Free and Open Source Multi-Language Support Portable Ease of Use

Program to recognize text on screen.

Key dpScreenOCR features:

User-Friendly Interface High Accuracy Support for Multiple Languages Fast Processing

Open Source

Copy any text you see on screen.

Key Text Grab features:

Ease of Use Integration with Windows Multilingual Support Cost-Effective

Open Source

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

Key OwlOCR features:

Accuracy User-friendly Interface Multiple Language Support Integration Options

Copy text from images, PDFs & screen.

ABBYY Screenshot Reader turns text within any image captured from your screen into an editable format without retyping.

Key ABBYY Screenshot Reader features:

Ease of Use High Accuracy Language Support Versatility