Work · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Textify
macOS app to recognize text from your images/docs with OCR
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Textify launched in 2020; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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PDFify▲230Free macOS text recognition, PDF composition & compression
2018 · pdfify.app · its alternatives →
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OCR to searchable PDF, with more languages & Siri Shortcuts
2022 · apps.apple.com · 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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Fast and efficient text recognition from any image and PDF
2019 · apps.microsoft.com · its alternatives →
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2023 · textify.storia.ai · its alternatives →
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Effortless image to text conversion for Mac
2024 · getsnipit.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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Math OCR model that outputs LaTeX and markdown. Contribute to VikParuchuri/texify development by creating an account on GitHub.
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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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 →
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With OCR (optical character recognition)
2024 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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Make anything selectable
May 2026 · selectable.so · its alternatives →
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