Snipping Tool vs TextSniper

Snipping Tool

Description: Snipping Tool is a basic screenshot utility included in Windows. It allows users to capture, edit, save, and share snippets of their screen. Common uses are taking screenshots to share error messages, tutorial steps, or other visual information.

Type: software

TextSniper

Description: TextSniper is a text extraction software that allows users to easily extract text from images, PDFs, presentations, and over 100 file types. It uses advanced OCR technology for accurate text recognition.

Type: software

Snipping Tool Features

• Take screenshots of full screen, window, or custom region
• Annotate screenshots with pen, highlighter, arrows, shapes, text
• Save screenshots as image files (PNG, GIF, JPEG)
• Copy screenshots to clipboard
• Delay screenshot capture by timer
• Basic image editing like cropping and resizing

TextSniper Features

• Extract text from images, PDFs, presentations and over 100 file types
• Advanced OCR technology for accurate text recognition
• Batch processing to extract text from multiple files
• Extract text in over 60 languages
• Copy extracted text or save it to Word, Excel, PDF, TXT and more
• Table extraction from PDFs
• Image processing filters to improve OCR accuracy
• Support for scanned documents and low quality images
• Extract text from specific regions of a page