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24 alternatives to I launched a super cheap and simple to use OCR tool for macOS
1. Click capture text 2. Select an area on screen with text 3. Paste the text anywhere Are there other solutions out there? Yes, the best one that I've found is Text Sniper, it $8 so I decided to learn SwiftUI and release Text Capture for $0.99. This one uses MacOS builtin Vision API under the hood so it should also improve with new macOS releases. Would love to hear your feedback!
Text Capture is a macOS OCR tool that extracts text from any area of the screen and allows users to paste it anywhere. Users click a button, select the text region, and paste the result. Built with SwiftUI and… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier. I launched a super cheap and simple to use OCR tool for macOS launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Get any text on your screen into your clipboard. Contribute to schappim/macOCR development by creating an account on GitHub.
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Capso▲269Free open-source screenshot & screen recorder for Mac
Apr 2026 · awesomemacapp.com · its alternatives →
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Effortless image to text conversion for Mac
2024 · getsnipit.com · its alternatives →
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Make anything selectable
May 2026 · selectable.so · its alternatives →
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Scan and extract text from images on iPhone, iPad & Mac
2024 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Download Copyfish for Firefox. Do you need to extract text from images, videos or PDF? If yes, then the Copyfish free OCR software is for you. Until now, your only option was to retype the text. Copyfish is so much faster and more fun. It can do desktop screenshots and OCR, too.
2017 · addons.mozilla.org · its alternatives →
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Heeey! I built a macOS copilot that has been useful to me, so I open sourced it in case others would find it useful too. It's pretty simple: - Use a keyboard shortcut to take a screenshot of your active macOS window and start recording the microphone. - Speak your question, then press the keyboard shortcut again to send your question + screenshot off to OpenAI Vision - The Vision response is presented in-context/overlayed over the active window, and spoken to you as audio. - The app keeps running in the background, only taking a screenshot/listening when activated by keyboard…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I've always had an issue with the screenshot flow on my computers. They save to the desktop by default and I can't seem to find screenshots easily when I needed it. They create too much clutter too. So I set out to solve this problem. My major concern was with privacy so I made sure to make it work entirely offline. Here's the final product, let me know what you think. - https://visionshot.app/
2020 · its alternatives →
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Capture, translate, and understand any text on your Mac
Aug 2026 · appunbound.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I made CopyLasso for text you can see but can't select: things like scanned PDFs, text in videos, and text in screenshots. I was surprised to find only a few solutions for this that were all paid, so I made a free and open source version. CopyLasso is a native Swift app built with ScreenCaptureKit and Apple Vision. It's MIT-licensed, signed, and notarized. To use it, just press your keybind and draw a bounding box around the text you want to copy. The text is recognized locally and copied to your clipboard. Other features include copying QR codes and barcodes, multi-language…
Aug 2026 · copylasso.com · its alternatives →
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Textify▲202macOS app to recognize text from your images/docs with OCR
2020 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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SnapEdit▲81Native SwiftUI clipboard image editor; edit, share instantly
Apr 2026 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Copy and paste text from youtube videos
Jun 2026 · screenshottext.com · its alternatives →
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MacOS productivity app that allows quickly capture and recognize text from your screen. Easiest to use mac OCR software for extracting text from images, PDFs, presentations, online meetings and even videos
2020 · textsniper.app · its alternatives →
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Initiater▲76Extract text from images and digital documents in seconds
2021 · blue-tail.com · its alternatives →
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Tidy▲98Spotlight returns nothing for words you know are in a scanned document. It is not a bug: a scan has no text layer, so there is nothing to index. How to check, and three ways to make those documents searchable on a Mac.
Jul 2026 · tidymacapp.com · its alternatives →
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Copy any text on your Mac—instantly
Jul 2026 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Glisiofree tier, from $9.99/mo▲116Mac Recorder & Snap editor w/auto-zoom, audio, local MP4
Aug 2026 · glisio.com · its alternatives →
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Instant OCR, Clipboard History
2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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