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24 alternatives to TextSnatcher

How to copy text from images, answer is TextSnatcher

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. TextSnatcher launched in 2022; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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Copyfish – Extract text from images, videos or PDF▲292
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 · its alternatives →
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Text Capture▲96
Simple & convenient OCR tool for macOS
2024 · its alternatives →
4IW
I wrote a free Mac app to OCR any text on screen▲321
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Snipit - Ultimate OCR app for Mac▲131
Effortless image to text conversion for Mac
2024 · 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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OCR Scanner▲91
Extract and translate text from image
2021 · its alternatives →
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OCR Tool▲7
Quickly extract text from images & PDFs with Python OCR
2025 · mjpourk.gumroad.com · its alternatives →
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Textify▲202
macOS app to recognize text from your images/docs with OCR
2020 · its alternatives →
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Image to text▲4
Copy text from an image with high accuracy
2023 · 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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Cheese! OCR▲73
Select any screen area, get text instantly
Apr 2026 · kaedeeeeeeeeee.github.io · its alternatives →
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Textly: Capture, Copy & Paste▲4
Instant OCR, Clipboard History
2025 · its alternatives →
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IMG to TEXT▲11
Free online image to text ocr tool [100% free]
2025 · its alternatives →
16YC
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 →
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TextMan▲53
Select, detect, and paste
2022 · its alternatives →
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CatOCR▲71
Best free OCR, convert image to text and word
2022 · its alternatives →
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FreeOCR.AI▲11
Convert images to text free online
2025 · its alternatives →
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Local-first fast CPU image to text for screenshots, PDFs, webpages▲19
Snap any image, screenshot, or webpage into plaintext. No GPU. No cloud. One command. - kouhxp/textsnap
Jun 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Copy texts in figma with just one click ▲5
CopyDump is the fastest way to extract text from any frame
Jun 2026 · figma.com · its alternatives →
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TextLens Pro on Atlassian Marketplace▲6
Turn Jira image attachments into valuable text data (OCR)
2025 · marketplace.atlassian.com · its alternatives →
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Image to Text OCR Converter▲5
Turn images into text. Fast, accurate & effortless OCR
Jan 2026 · apps.apple.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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