GrabText
Extract text from anywhere on your Windows screen
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Details
- External ID
- 1276939
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- GrabText
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 12, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.33
- Tags
- Productivity, Open Source, User Experience, GitHub
Description
Lens Text is a Windows desktop tool that lets you extract text from anywhere on your screen. Press Ctrl+Shift+X, select an area, and copy text from error dialogs, videos, screenshots, and otherwise unselectable PDFs. Collect multiple snippets with Multi-select mode, or use Scroll mode to gather text across long pages. Powered by a multi-engine OCR fallback system, with high-DPI and multi-monitor support.
Enrichment
- Niche
- visual content creation and editing tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Workflow automation
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- screen ocr text extraction tool for windows
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes A desktop utility using standard Windows screen capture APIs and an off-the-shelf OCR library (like Tesseract or Windows.Media.Ocr) can be quickly built with AI assistance.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 302 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #127 of 303 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 346 days after the earliest competitor.
- Image to Text · ph · 2026-10-13 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- Copy Text from Image · ph · 2026-10-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- windows-offline-pdf-ocr-text-extractor · github · 2026-10-09 · 24 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- Text Scanner: Image to Text · ph · 2026-09-26 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- TextGrab · ph · 2026-09-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- CleanTextLabs · ph · 2026-09-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Lenscribe · ph · 2026-10-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- FreeTextFormat · ph · 2026-10-06 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.46
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