Adobe Scan Alternatives

Adobe Scan is described as 'The Adobe Scan scanner app turns your device into a powerful portable scanner that recognizes text automatically (OCR) and allows you to save to multiple file formats including PDF and JPEG' and is a document scanner in the office & productivity category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Adobe Scan for a variety of platforms, including Windows, iPhone, Android, iPad and Mac apps. The best Adobe Scan alternative is OSS Document Scanner, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Adobe Scan are Tesseract, Snagit, Google Lens and GImageReader.

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Adobe Scan alternatives page was last updated Mar 1, 2025
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  1. Scan Now icon
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    A fast and simple app for document scanning on iOS.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Country of Origin

    • PL flagPoland
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad

    Scan Now Features

    1.  Swift

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    Scan Thing is the quickest way to capture and save anything around you. Scan Thing is available on iOS, iPadOS, and MacOS.

    License model

    • FreemiumProprietary

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad
    • Mac

    Scan Thing: Scan Anything Features

    1.  OCR
    2.  No registration required
    3.  Ad-free
    4.  Mobile Scanner
    5.  Scanner

    Scan Thing: Scan Anything VS Adobe Scan

     
  3. dpScreenOCR icon
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    Program to recognize text on screen.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Country of Origin

    • International

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  OCR
    2.  Works Offline
    3.  Screenshot OCR

    dpScreenOCR VS Adobe Scan

     
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    Quickly extract text from almost any source: youtube, screencasts, PDFs, webpages, photos, etc. Grab the image and get the text.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Country of Origin

    • EE flagEstonia
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
    • elementary OS

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Dark Mode
    2.  Extract text from image

    Frog - Extract Text VS Adobe Scan

     
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    PhotoScan lets you create enhanced digital scans of your old photos, with automatic edge detection, perspective correction, and smart rotation.

    27 Google PhotoScan alternatives

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad

    Google PhotoScan Features

    1.  Mobile Scanner
    2.  Ad-free
    3.  Remove glares from photos
    4.  Automatic Cropping
    5.  Scanner
    6.  Auto Rotation
    7. Google Photos icon  Google photos integration

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  6. PDF Doc Scan icon
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    Main point of this app is to scan or select existing PDF documents simply using intent or chooser. Other apps require payment to access their api/sdk or simply don't have a possible way to do it. So they rely on switching between an app ,file chooser and a scanner.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Android
    • F-Droid

    PDF Doc Scan Features

    1.  Ad-free
    2.  Mobile Scanner
    3.  Built-in viewer
    4.  Scanner

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  7. Scanner Pro icon
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    Scanner Pro turns your iPhone into portable scanner in your pocket. It lets you scan multipage documents, email them and even upload to Dropbox, MobileMe iDisk or any other WebDAV enabled server.

    55 Scanner Pro alternatives

    License model

    Country of Origin

    • UA flagUkraine

    Platforms

    • iPhone

    Scanner Pro Features

    1.  Mobile Scanner
    2.  Scanner
    3.  Image Processing

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  8. QuickScan icon
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    The app is 100% FREE, with NO ads and NO data collection. Donations are possible to support the project.

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • IT flagItaly
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad

    QuickScan Features

    1.  Combine PDF
    2.  Sign PDF files
    3.  Mobile Scanner
    4.  No registration required
    5.  Ad-free
    6.  OCR
    7.  PDF OCR
    8.  Export Presets
    9.  Rearrange PDF
    10.  Native GUI

    QuickScan VS Adobe Scan

     
    Comments about QuickScan as an Alternative to Adobe Scan
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    Positive Aug 10, 2023
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    It's fully privacy respecting, free, and has no ads. It runs super fast and uses all native UI elements. No account required.

    Adobe Scan Icon
    QuickScan icon
    • QuickScan is Free and ProprietaryAdobe Scan is Freemium and Proprietary
  9. FreeOCR icon
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    FreeOCR is a scan & OCR program including the Tesseract free ocr engine, also known as a Tesseract GUI. It includes a Windows installer, and it is very simple to use.

    84 FreeOCR alternatives

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Country of Origin

    • International

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Discontinued

    For 7 years the app has no updates. Latest release: March 2015 v5.4

    FreeOCR Features

    1.  OCR
    2. Google Drive icon  Google Drive integration
    3.  PDF OCR
    4.  Image Processing

    FreeOCR VS Adobe Scan

     
  10. OCRFeeder icon
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    OCRFeeder is a document layout analysis and optical character recognition system.

    42 OCRFeeder alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • PT flagPortugal
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Linux

    OCRFeeder Features

    1.  OCR
    2.  Built-in viewer
    3.  Graphical User Interface

    OCRFeeder VS Adobe Scan

     
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