Alternatives to Pot
Cross-platform translation and OCR tool triggered by selecting text. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Pot
Cross-platform translation and OCR tool triggered by selecting text.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Pot.
DeepL
An AI translator and writing assistant for text, documents and speech, with desktop, mobile and browser apps.
DeepL is a closed source translator with desktop, mobile and browser apps that also translates whole documents, but text is processed on DeepL's servers and higher limits need payment.
Also worth comparing
These listings name Pot as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.
gImageReader
Recognize text from scans and PDFs through a desktop interface.
Pot is a free GPL-3.0 tool with hotkey screenshot OCR and translation on Windows, macOS and Linux, but most engines need your own API keys.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
OCRmyPDF
Adds a searchable text layer to a scanned PDF without disturbing the page images, producing a PDF/A you can search and copy from.
LanguageTool
Grammar, spelling and style checker for more than thirty languages.
