TextSniper vs. Zotero

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
TextSniper
Score 8.3 out of 10
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
TextSniper is a desktop Mac OCR app that can extract and recognize non-searchable and editable text on a Mac's screen, and can turn text into speech. It is presented as an alternative to difficult and complicated optical character recognition tools. The tool aims to make extracting text from images, paper documents, PDFs or videos easy. It is accessible from the menu bar and boasts a simple user interface. The vendor says working with TextSniper is like using a built-in mac's screen capture…N/A
Zotero
Score 9.1 out of 10
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Zotero is a free reference management tool developed as a project developed at Carnegie Mellon and supported by a small team at George Mason University.N/A
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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User Ratings
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8.2
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9.4
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User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
Textsniper
TextSniper is well suited if you are doing any work where you deal with OCR files, noneditable and nonsearchable text you can use TextSniper to edit and copy those texts and update and use in your project or document, this is best when you use zoom or any video chatting and having any text and related text to copy or nonsearchable text to use, TextSniper is best for to make your life easier and save your time.
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Open Source
Zotero is well suited for any researcher, student or writer that wants to easily cite sources for web platforms that do not have easy citing tools integrated within the website. There are many browser plug-ins built for Zotero that allow users to click a button directly from the source into the main software and from there can be more organized for citation export. Zotero doesn't work well if you open an external PDF from a website as it cannot pull author information correctly from a PDF source.
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Pros
Textsniper
  • Make your OCR file document text editable
  • Make your text and nonsearchable text more visible and useful
  • Save your time and you can easily edit and update any document with OCR text
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Open Source
  • Zotero, when paired with the Zotfile plugin, makes it incredibly easy to index sources and documents on a project-by-project basis. Users can store document files locally in a Zotero project filesystem, or merely store links to files stored elsewhere.
  • Zotero plays extremely nicely with PDF documents, thanks again to the Zotfile plugin: I can highlight sections of a PDF article's text and Zotero indexes these "pull quotes" in a searchable and well-organized manner for easy extraction when it comes time to synthesize my sources into a new paper.
  • Zotero automates the production of properly-formatted references (including APA, MLA, Chicago, and others), making it a breeze to create accurate and complete bibliographies.
  • Zotero's library system provides a straightforward graphical user interface to manage multiple research projects and associated files, including the ability to easily add items to a project by ISBN, DOI, PMID, and arXiv IDs.
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Cons
Textsniper
  • TextSniper should think about the other operating system users also
  • the can do some more improvement with OCR file-related text and some more editing and updating features for Mac users
  • They can make a more reliable and supportive customer support team for TextSniper users
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Open Source
  • Libre office integration was iffy
  • Using different word processors (i.e, Word, then Google Docs on the same file) can "break" embedded citations.
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Alternatives Considered
Textsniper
TextSniper is more reliable and secure, you can trust the UI of this software and it's more easy and more fun to use. Rossum is more costly and a very less number of people recommend me to go with Rossum. TextSniper is more popular and has some great features for the users who are really interested in such tools.
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Open Source
Zotero is much less prone to glitches than Mendeley, and has much easier to use web extensions and word processor plugins. I found Zotero easy and intuitive to use
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Return on Investment
Textsniper
  • TextSniper saves your time and money
  • TextSniper makes your editing and project-related work more simple and easy
  • TextSniper support team is not so supportive
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Open Source
  • More Credibility on Our Online Posts that is Informational
  • Less Chances of Potential Legal Issues When Writing
  • Less Time Spent Grabbing Sources from Browser History When Researching
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ScreenShots

TextSniper Screenshots

Screenshot of Image shows how TextSniper could be used to extract text from YouTube video.Screenshot of Unnoticed until you need it. TextSniper lives in the menu bar, SO it's out of the way but on hand when needed.Screenshot of Screenshot of Text to Speech. You can have TextSniper speak the recognized text whenever you need it.Screenshot of TextSniper under Big Sur operating system recognizes English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and ChineseScreenshot of Image describes how TextSniper works. 1. Step.  Press Shift+Cmd+2 to start or select a Capture Text from the menu bar. 2. Step. Select any region with text on your screen.  3. Step. Paste copied text to clipboard into any text editing application.