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24 alternatives to SnipText — OCR for any image or webpage

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Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.

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I wrote a free Mac app to OCR any text on screen▲321
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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Snipit - Ultimate OCR app for Mac▲131
Effortless image to text conversion for Mac
2024 · getsnipit.com · its alternatives →
3
Copyfish – Extract text from images, videos or PDF▲292
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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ocrX Image to Text▲125
Scan and extract text from images on iPhone, iPad & Mac
2024 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
5
iText▲11
OCR and translation tool powered by Google.
2017 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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OCR Scanner▲91
Extract and translate text from image
2021 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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Snip▲85
The simplest way to highlight and share text on the web
2023 · its alternatives →
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Extract Text from Image▲4
Copy text from any image, right in your browser
Aug 2026 · devexthub.com · its alternatives →
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SlimSnap▲141
What it does: mark the element, get small JSON (element, text, position, intent) instead of the raw image.
Jun 2026 · slimsnap.ai · its alternatives →
10
TextSnatcher▲64
How to copy text from images, answer is TextSnatcher
2022 · textsnatcher.rf.gd · its alternatives →
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Text Capture▲96
Simple & convenient OCR tool for macOS
2024 · textcapture.app · its alternatives →
12
CatOCR▲71
Best free OCR, convert image to text and word
2022 · its alternatives →
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LetterSnap OCR▲121
Pictures to text, fast and exact.
2016 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
14
SnipThat▲63
Save intersting snippets of text you find whilst browsing
2022 · its alternatives →
15YC
You can now cut and paste from scanned documents in Firefox▲33
I just realized you can now open a PDF document in Firefox and select text directly from scanned images embedded in the document (so basically transparently reliable doing OCR). It is also surprisingly reliable, only sometimes mistaking a "oh" for a "zero" in a long string of numbers. I neither know when this was introduced nor who added this feature, but from the bottom of my heart: thank you, thank you, thank you, you have made my daily life a lot easier. I also haven't really explored the limits of the feature and under what conditions it starts failing, but: in my daily workflow so far,…
2024 · its alternatives →
16
Image Reader Google Chrome Extension▲69
Extract text from images in a browser in a two mouse clicks
2022 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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Faster OCR▲7
Chrome web store
2025 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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Sight▲70
Screenshot to save articles. Why share when you can OCR?
2014 · its alternatives →
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ImageXtract▲8
Copy text from image - chrome web store
2024 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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Docsumo-OCR – Chrome extension to capture webpages and edit text▲18
2021 · chrome.google.com · its alternatives →
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Extract Text From Picture Online & Free▲11
100% free image to text converter
2025 · picture2txt.com · its alternatives →
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Image to Text OCR▲3
Extract Text from Images, Screenshots & Notes in Seconds
Feb 2026 · imagetotextocr.com · its alternatives →
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Textquill▲14
Turn any image into text — private, on-device OCR
Jul 2026 · textquill.app · its alternatives →
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TextMan▲53
Select, detect, and paste
2022 · textman.io · its alternatives →

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