Life & fun · alternatives · 2026

text.fish is a web tool that extracts text from web pages, removing ads, navigation elements, and other distractions. Designed for readers who want a cleaner browsing experience, it strips websites down to their core… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. text.fish: Get Only Text, Read Peacefully launched in 2020; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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   Link.fish – API to extract data from websites as JSON▲201

   2017 · link.fish · its alternatives →

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   Text Fish▲139

   Skip Paywalls, Read Peacefully

   2020 · text.fish · its alternatives →

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   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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   Scraping Fish▲111

   The simplest API for web scraping without getting blocked.

   2022 · scrapingfish.com · its alternatives →

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   Goldfish▲958

   Press Option. It knows your work and replies like you

   Jun 2026 · goldfish.sh · its alternatives →

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   TextBlob, Natural language processing made simple in Python▲303

   2013 · textblob.readthedocs.org · its alternatives →

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   CopyFish▲12

   Extract text from images, videos or PDF.

   2017 · its alternatives →

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   Reader Mode 2.0▲332

   Read, highlight and annotate the web without distractions

   2025 · readermode.io · its alternatives →

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   Webpage Text API▲93

   Get the HTML content of a webpage without the junk.

   2021 · goldenhillsoftware.com · its alternatives →

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    Followup Fish▲119

    Bubble up emails back to the top of your inbox

    2023 · followup.fish · its alternatives →

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    Flash▲203

    A speed reading web app

    2018 · flash.vercel.app · its alternatives →

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    Readvox▲211

    Chrome Extension that will read texts on web pages for you

    2024 · readvox.com · its alternatives →

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    Brutal Reader▲98

    Strips any webpage down to just the article

    Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Text Cleaner▲77

    Text cleaning and formatting

    2022 · textcleaner.net · its alternatives →

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    Extractor API▲68

    Extract boilerplate-free text from news links at scale

    2021 · extractorapi.com · its alternatives →

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    Extract Markdown, HTML or text from content-heavy websites▲49

    Extract clean Markdown, HTML, or plain text from content-heavy websites.

    2022 · content-parser.com · its alternatives →

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    ReadingLines▲63

    Extract Text From Images

    2022 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    Paste a link to an article, get a minimal version to read▲78

    2014 · justread.mpgarate.com · its alternatives →

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    Scanlt▲103

    PDF & document scanner, ads-free, smart PDF converter

    2024 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    Fisherman – Plugin manager and CLI toolkit for fish shell▲39

    2016 · fisherman.sh · its alternatives →

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    ReadingLines▲66

    Extract text from images

    2022 · its alternatives →

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    Copyfish 🐟 Free OCR Software▲7

    Copy, paste and translate text from any image, video or PDF.

    2016 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →

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    A simple web app to extract text found in the image▲9

    2018 · image-to-text.edgardev.com · its alternatives →

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    Text Extractor▲9

    Extracts text from image, ppt's and pdf's

    2025 · its alternatives →

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