Free and open-source tool for screen capture and recording; enables file uploads, annotation, dark mode, 4K support, and customizable themes.
- Screenshot Capture Tool
- Free • Open Source
- Windows
- PortableApps.com
- Steam
+29Cross-platform app for creating and organizing notes from text, web pages, images, and voice memos. Offers security features and integrates with various tools.
- Note-taking Tool
- Freemium • Proprietary
- Mac
- Windows
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Blackberry
- Android Tablet
- Windows Phone
- iPad
- Apple Watch
- Kindle Fire
+2Efficient screenshot tool providing OCR, exports to Office apps, supports image editing and sharing, occupying minimal space with 32 languages.
- Screenshot Capture Tool
- Freemium • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
+10An efficient PDF viewer and editor with advanced features like direct content editing, OCR by ABBYY, form filling, annotation, and offline access.
- PDF Editor
- Freemium • Proprietary
- Windows
- PortableApps.com
- Wine
+3The OSS Document Scanner is an Open Source app to scan all your documents. You either scan using your camera or by importing an image. The app will automatically detect you document within the photo and will crop the image.
- Document Scanner
- Free • Open Source
- Android
- iPhone
- F-Droid
+1NAPS2 is a document scanning application with a focus on simplicity and ease of use.
- Document Scanner
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
+5locally hosted web application that allows you to perform various operations on PDF files.
- PDF Editor
- Freemium • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Online
- Self-Hosted
- Docker Hub
+1Read, edit, convert, merge, and sign PDF files across devices, for completely free and without signing up.
- PDF Editor
- Free • Proprietary
- Mac
- Windows
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
+2Ksnip is a Qt based cross-platform screenshot tool that provides many annotation features for your screenshots.
- Screenshot Capture Tool
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Snapcraft
- Flathub
+6View, annotate, and collaborate on PDFs, utilize cloud storage and freehand tools. Upgrade for editing and converting to other formats.
- PDF Reader
- Freemium • Proprietary
- Mac
- Windows
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
+9Snipping Tool is a screen capture utility that allows users to take screenshots of specific objects or full screens, annotate them, and save or share the captured images or videos.
- Screenshot Capture Tool
- Free • Proprietary
- Windows
+3PDF-XChange Viewer is an alternative viewer for PDF files that enables you to view and annotate PDF files. You can add text, sticky notes, and other annotations and save them to the file, which will be compatible with the standard Adobe Acrobat Reader.
Discontinued- PDF Reader
- Freemium • Proprietary
- Windows
- PortableApps.com
Tesseract.js is a javascript library that gets words in almost any language out of images.
- OCR Engine
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
Capture and edit any image or video from the screen, add callouts and effects, and easily organize and share visual content across various applications.
- Screenshot Capture Tool
- Paid • Proprietary
- Mac
- Windows
+1OCR software with unmatched text recognition accuracy, converting scanned documents into editable formats like Word and Excel, supporting 190 languages.
- OCR Engine
- Paid • Proprietary
- Mac
- Windows
- iPhone
- iPad
+5