Easy Screen OCR vs Greenshot

Easy Screen OCR is a macOS desktop app that captures a selected screen area and turns text in screenshots or other images into editable text. After screen-recording permission is enabled, a customizable hotkey takes the screenshot and copies the recognized text to the clipboard. The app lists more than 100 OCR languages, automatic language detection, and translation for recognized text. Its history stores earlier OCR results, screenshots, recognized text, and translations. OCR is described as running locally and offline, without uploads. The free plan is listed at free and includes full functionality, batch OCR for up to five images, and translation up to 1,000 characters. Pro adds larger batch jobs and extended translation capacity. Monthly, yearly, and lifetime plans are listed without prices. macOS 13.0 or later is required.

Greenshot is free, open-source screenshot software for Windows PCs. It can capture a selected region, a window, or the full screen, and can capture scrolling web pages from Internet Explorer. Users can annotate and highlight screenshots, obscure selected portions, and extract text with OCR. Images can be saved, printed, copied, emailed, sent to Office, or uploaded to photo sites such as Flickr or Picasa. Listed export formats are PNG and JPEG. Greenshot is intended for people who create screenshots, including project managers, developers, technical writers, and testers. The Windows plan is listed at free, and an optional cost contribution is $1.99 as a one-time purchase. The latest stable Windows release listed is version 1.3.315, dated 20 Mar 2026. Source code is available in Git repositories. Windows 8 users may be prompted to install.NET 3.5, though they can skip that installation.