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Best alternatives to Screenshot to Text(OCR) - Image text extractor (2026)

10 Chrome extensions that do a similar job to Screenshot to Text(OCR), closest first. Each shows real store users, its rating, how recently it was updated and how many permissions it asks for.

Screenshot to Text(OCR) - Image text extractor today

≈10K users3.4★ from 63 ratingsUpdated 19 months ago4 permissions

Screenshot to Text(OCR) alternatives, compared

  1. 1

    OCR Editor - Text from Image

    Online OCR editor to extract the text from images, pdf and word files.

    ≈40K users4.0★ from 114 ratingsUpdated 22 months ago7 permissions
    • About 4.0× more users than Screenshot to Text(OCR)
    • Rated 0.6 stars higher
    • Updated less recently
    • Asks for more permissions (7 vs 4)
    • Listed under Workflow & Planning
  2. 2

    Text Extractor From Image

    Using Text Extractor From Image is an easy way to convert image to text. Extract text from picture in one click with high accuracy!

    ≈3K users4.6★ from 22 ratingsUpdated 9 months ago6 permissions
    • About 3.3× fewer users than Screenshot to Text(OCR)
    • Rated 1.1 stars higher
    • Updated more recently
    • Asks for more permissions (6 vs 4)
  3. 3

    OCR Image to text - Image Reader

    A powerful optical character recognition (OCR) extension to capture and convert images to text

    ≈9K users4.4★ from 13 ratings7 permissions
    • A similar number of users to Screenshot to Text(OCR)
    • Asks for more permissions (7 vs 4)
    • Listed under Accessibility
  4. 4

    ScreenShot To Text More

    capture text from image quickly

    ≈1K usersNot rated yetNot updated for 2+ years2 permissions
    • About 10× fewer users than Screenshot to Text(OCR)
    • Updated less recently
    • Asks for fewer permissions (2 vs 4)
  5. 5

    OCR - Image Reader

    A powerful optical character recognition (OCR) extension to capture and convert images to text

    ≈200K users4.5★ from 246 ratingsUpdated 3 months ago7 permissions
    • About 20× more users than Screenshot to Text(OCR)
    • Rated 1.1 stars higher
    • Updated more recently
    • Asks for more permissions (7 vs 4)
    • Listed under Developer Tools
  6. 6

    Screenshot YouTube Video

    Quickly extract video frames from YouTube and OK.ru and save to JPG images with just one click.

    ≈70K users4.9★ from 1.2K ratingsUpdated 9 months ago4 permissions
    • About 7.0× more users than Screenshot to Text(OCR)
    • Rated 1.4 stars higher
    • Updated more recently
    • Listed under Social Networking
  7. 7

    screenshot-to-pdf

    Convert the screenshots into pdfs by a click of a button

    ≈2K users4.6★ from 11 ratingsUpdated 24 months ago5 permissions
    • About 5.0× fewer users than Screenshot to Text(OCR)
    • Updated less recently
    • Asks for more permissions (5 vs 4)
  8. 8

    OCR Scanner Extension

    An optical character recognition (OCR) extension to extract text from snapshot

    ≈4K users3.6★ from 46 ratingsUpdated 8 weeks ago2 permissions
    • About 2.5× fewer users than Screenshot to Text(OCR)
    • Updated more recently
    • Asks for fewer permissions (2 vs 4)
    • Listed under Accessibility
  9. 9

    Image to Text (OCR)

    A Fast and simple document scanner app with high quality text output.

    ≈100K users1.9★ from 129 ratingsUpdated 5 months ago5 permissions
    • About 10× more users than Screenshot to Text(OCR)
    • Rated 1.6 stars lower
    • Updated more recently
    • Asks for more permissions (5 vs 4)
    • Listed under Workflow & Planning
  10. 10

    Get Text from Image

    Quickly Get Text from Image using OCR character recognition​ to convert image, copy and extract text from picture in just seconds.

    ≈2K users5.0★ from 65 ratingsUpdated 6 months ago7 permissions
    • About 5.0× fewer users than Screenshot to Text(OCR)
    • Rated 1.5 stars higher
    • Updated more recently
    • Asks for more permissions (7 vs 4)

Screenshot to Text(OCR) alternatives: questions

What is the best alternative to Screenshot to Text(OCR)?

By users, the most popular alternative is OCR - Image Reader with ≈200K users and a 4.5-star rating. The closest match by what it does is OCR Editor - Text from Image.

Which Screenshot to Text(OCR) alternative has the best rating?

Get Text from Image has the highest rating of these alternatives with 50+ ratings: 5.0 out of 5 from 65 ratings.

Is there a Screenshot to Text(OCR) alternative that asks for fewer permissions?

ScreenShot To Text More asks for 2 permissions, against 4 for Screenshot to Text(OCR).

How many alternatives to Screenshot to Text(OCR) are there?

We list 10 close alternatives to Screenshot to Text(OCR) on the Chrome Web Store, picked by what they do and ranked by how close they are.

Users and ratings are the figures shown on the Chrome Web Store, re-checked continuously. Alternatives are matched on name, description, category and topic. Browse best-of lists by niche.