Tesseract.js is a javascript library that gets words in almost any language out of images.
CamScanner Alternatives for Linux
CamScanner is not available for Linux but there are plenty of alternatives that runs on Linux with similar functionality. The best Linux alternative is Tesseract, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to CamScanner and 11 are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to CamScanner are GImageReader, NormCap, Crow Translate and dpScreenOCR.
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CamScanner alternatives are mainly OCR Engines, but if you're looking for Document Scanners or Screenshot Capture Tools you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Open Source, Windows, Android + Open Source, Android, Android + Free, Scan documents and Free. You can also filter by region, for example EU-based alternatives if you prefer software developed in the European Union. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to CamScanner.
Alternatives list
26 Tesseract alternatives
82 Crow Translate alternativesCrow Translate is a simple and lightweight translator programmed in C++ / Qt that allows to translate and speak text using Google, Yandex and Bing translate API.
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48 OCRFeeder alternativesOCRFeeder is a document layout analysis and optical character recognition system.
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Quickly extract text from almost any source: youtube, screencasts, PDFs, webpages, photos, etc. Grab the image and get the text.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Platforms
- Linux
- Flathub
- Flatpak
- elementary OS
A Java/.NET GUI frontend for Tesseract OCR engine. Provides optical character recognition for Vietnamese and other languages supported by Tesseract.
68 SikuliX alternativesSikuliX automates anything you see on the screen of your desktop computer running Windows, Mac or some Linux/Unix. It uses image recognition.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
84 CuneiForm alternativesCuneiForm (OpenOCR) is a text recognition software for printed templates. Manuscripts or PDF-files, the program can not recognize, however, but table structures. The language-model is applicable for 20 languages, and the results can be used as HTML, RTF or ASCII text to save, or...
WatchOCR is an open source OCR server that creates searchable pdfs from images in a watched folder.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Linux
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