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 12 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 Document Scanners, but if you're looking for Screenshot Capture Tools or OCR Engines you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Open Source, Android + Open Source, Android, Android + Free, Scan documents, Free and Online. 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.
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  1. Tesseract icon

    Tesseract

     110 likes

    Tesseract.js is a javascript library that gets words in almost any language out of images.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  5. Crow Translate icon

    Crow Translate

     36 likes

    Crow 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.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    Crow Translate screenshot 1
     
  9. Frog - Extract Text icon

    Frog - Extract Text

     3 likes

    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
    Frog - Extract Text screenshot 1
     
  10. VietOCR icon

    VietOCR

     7 likes

    A Java/.NET GUI frontend for Tesseract OCR engine. Provides optical character recognition for Vietnamese and other languages supported by Tesseract.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    VietOCR.NET on Windows 10 (Version 6.14.0 of 16 November 2024 runs on Tesseract 5.5.0)
     
  11. SikuliX icon

    SikuliX

     7 likes

    SikuliX 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
    SikuliX screenshot 1
     
  12. Montscan icon

    Montscan

     1 like

    Automated scanner document processor with AI-powered naming and WebDav integration. Receives scans via FTP, extracts text using Vision AI, generates intelligent filenames with Ollama AI, and uploads to your cloud storage.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Docker
     
  13. CuneiForm icon

    CuneiForm

     10 likes

    CuneiForm (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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    OCR Main Window
     
  14. WatchOCR icon

    WatchOCR

     3 likes

    WatchOCR is an open source OCR server that creates searchable pdfs from images in a watched folder.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    Web Interface Server Control
     
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