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I wrote a free Mac app to OCR any text on screen▲321
2021 · github.com
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Cheese! OCR▲73
Select any screen area, get text instantly
Apr 2026 · kaedeeeeeeeeee.github.io
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OwlOCR 4.0▲261
Near instant text recognition for Mac!
2020
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LetterSnap OCR▲121
Pictures to text, fast and exact.
2016
5TJ
Tesseract.js – Pure JavaScript OCR for 60 Languages▲727
2016 · github.com
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Snipit - Ultimate OCR app for Mac▲131
Effortless image to text conversion for Mac
2024
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dpScreenOCR – a program to recognize text on the screen▲32
In a nutshell, dpScreenOCR can recognize text from the selected screen area, and then can copy it to the clipboard, add it to history, or pass it as an argument to an executable.
2022 · danpla.github.io
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TextSniper▲204
Capture any text from your Mac's screen
2020
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OwlOCR 1.0▲71
Snappy, secure, on-device OCR for MacOS
2020
10ZD
Zerox – Document OCR with GPT-mini▲246
This started out as a weekend hack with gpt-4-mini, using the very basic strategy of "just ask the ai to ocr the document". But this turned out to be better performing than our current implementation of Unstructured/Textract. At pretty much the same cost. I've tested almost every variant of document OCR over the past year, especially trying things like table / chart extraction. I've found the rules based extraction has always been lacking. Documents are meant to be a visual representation after all. With weird layouts, tables, charts, etc. Using a vision model just make sense! In…
2024 · github.com
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Image to Text OCR▲3
Extract Text from Images, Screenshots & Notes in Seconds
Feb 2026 · imagetotextocr.com
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Text Capture▲96
Simple & convenient OCR tool for macOS
2024
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Instashot▲207
Access text from any image instantly.
2017
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Snaplater▲8
Snap Driven Tasks. Turn screenshots into to-dos instantly.
Jan 2026
15BC
BetterOCR combines and corrects multiple OCR engines with an LLM▲63
2023 · github.com
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OwlOCR 5▲99
Snappy and accurate text recognition for macOS
2022
17GV
GPT-V and OCR for Screen Control▲22
2023 · github.com
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I launched a super cheap and simple to use OCR tool for macOS▲24
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!
2024 · textcapture.app
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Specter - Snap clean UI screenshots▲10
The fastest way to screenshot pixel perfect UI
Nov 2025 · specter.bigbrin.com
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Kaizen OCR▲31
Fully offline OCR with 100+ languages support. Full Privacy
2025
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Screenshot-OCR▲2
Screenshot
Feb 2026 · jeffrey0117.github.io
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OCRForge ▲8
Fast, accurate text scanner – no ads, no subscriptions
2025
23OO
Online OCR Free – Batch OCR UI for Tesseract, Gemini and OpenRouter▲14
Built this because people working with large document sets had no free tool that handled batch processing cleanly. Tesseract is free and runs locally. For anything that needs more accuracy — Google Vision, Gemini, or any OpenRouter model — you bring your own API key. No subscription, no markup on your usage. Export as TXT, JSON, XML or PDF. AI engines support custom prompts so you can translate, extract form fields, or get structured output in one step. App: https://onlineocrfree.qzz.io Source: https://github.com/naimurhasan/online-ocr-free
Mar 2026 · onlineocrfree.qzz.io
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TextGrab: OCR Snipping Tool▲3
Copy any text on your Mac—instantly
Jul 2026 · apps.apple.com

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