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. SimpleOCR icon

    SimpleOCR

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    SimpleOCR is the popular freeware OCR software with hundreds of thousands of users worldwide. SimpleOCR is also a royalty-free OCR SDK for developers to use in their custom applications.

    License model

    • Free • Proprietary

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • IT flagItaly
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Windows
    SimpleOCR screenshot 1

    SimpleOCR Features

    1.  OCR
    2.  Image Processing

    SimpleOCR VS Adobe Scan

     
  2. ClearScanner icon

    ClearScanner

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    Scan documents easily using your mobile camera.

    License model

    • Freemium • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    ClearScanner screenshot 1

    ClearScanner Features

    1.  Built-in viewer
    2.  OCR
    3.  Mobile Scanner
    4.  Image Processing
    5.  Scan to PDF
    6.  Scan to JPEG
    7.  JPG to PDF Conversion
    8.  Smart auto-align
    9.  Scanner
    10.  Support for Batch Mode

    ClearScanner VS Adobe Scan

     
  4. ABBYY TextGrabber icon

    ABBYY TextGrabber

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    ABBYY TextGrabber easily and quickly digitizes fragments of printed text and turns the recognized result into action: call, email, follow links, find on maps, translate into 100+ languages, edit, voice over and share in any convenient way.

    License model

    • Freemium • Proprietary

    Application types

    Country of Origin

    • RU flagRussia

    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    ABBYY TextGrabber screenshot 1
    ABBYY TextGrabber screenshot 2
    ABBYY TextGrabber screenshot 3

    ABBYY TextGrabber Features

    1.  Works Offline
    2.  Text to Speech
    3.  OCR
    4.  Multiple languages

    ABBYY TextGrabber VS Adobe Scan

     
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    PDF OCR

    PDF OCR is a software that converts scanned PDF documents into editable text files in just two clicks. Its OCR engine operates 92% faster than other software, giving users the option to select specific pages for OCR.

    http://www.pdfocr.net
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  6. CuneiForm icon

    CuneiForm

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    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...

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • RU flagRussia

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    OCR Main Window
    Discontinued

    Last release on 2011: https://launchpad.net/cuneiform-linux/ download

    CuneiForm Features

    1.  Portable
    2.  OCR
    3.  Image Processing

    CuneiForm VS Adobe Scan

     
  7. Docus icon

    Docus

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    The app that allows scanning and organizing documents. Including export in PDF and sharing with others. Completely free.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Android

    Docus Features

    1.  Mobile Scanner
    2.  Scanner
    3.  Scan to PDF

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  8. Text Fairy icon

    Text Fairy

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    Convert your phone into a mobile text scanner.

    • Free • Extract text from images. • Edit, share, or export as PDF • Works offline to protect your privacy. • Reads text out loud. (Text-to-speech, TTS) • Recognizes printed text from more than 110 languages. • Scan documents with t.

    License model

    • Freemium • Open Source

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • DE flagGermany
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Android
    • Android Tablet
    Text Fairy screenshot 1
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    Discontinued

    Last version and commit is from Nov 2020.

    Text Fairy Features

    1.  Mobile Scanner
    2.  Works Offline
    3.  OCR
    4.  Text to Speech
    5.  Scan to PDF
    6.  Multiple languages
    7.  Extract text from image
    8.  Screenshot OCR

    Text Fairy VS Adobe Scan

     
  10. Tiny Scanner icon

    Tiny Scanner

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    Scan Documents, Photos, Papers.

    License model

    • Free Personal • Proprietary

    Application types

    Country of Origin

    • GB flagUnited Kingdom

    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Online
    Tiny Scanner screenshot 1
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    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Works Offline
    2.  No registration required
    3.  OCR
    4.  Built-in viewer
    5.  Mobile Scanner
    6.  Ad-free
    7.  Full-Text Search
    8.  Combine PDF
    9.  Cloud Sync
    10.  Scan to PDF
    11.  Scanner

    Tiny Scanner VS Adobe Scan

     
  11. Klippa DocHorizon icon

    Klippa DocHorizon

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    DocHorizon is an AI-powered document processing platform that automates data extraction, fraud detection, identity verification, anonymization, and e-invoicing.

    License model

    Application types

    Country of Origin

    • NL flagNetherlands
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    Klippa DocHorizon screenshot 1

    Properties

    1.  Privacy focused

    Features

    1.  Import CSV Data
    2.  Ad-free
    3.  OCR
    4.  No Coding Required
    5.  Calendar Integration
    6.  No Tracking
    7.  Employee onboarding
    8.  PDF OCR
    9.  Automatic data extraction
    10.  AI-Powered
    11.  Business Automation

    Klippa DocHorizon VS Adobe Scan

     
  12. NewOCR.com icon

    NewOCR.com

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    NewOCR.com is a free online OCR (Optical Character Recognition) service, can analyze the text in any image file that you upload, and then convert the text from the image into text that you can easily edit on your computer..

    License model

    • Free • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    NewOCR.com screenshot 1

    NewOCR.com Features

    1.  OCR

    NewOCR.com VS Adobe Scan

     
  13. Geekersoft OCR Word Recognition icon

    Geekersoft OCR Word Recognition

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    An intelligent OCR image text recognition software. Support PDF file recognition, image text recognition, screenshot recognition, ticket recognition, image to Excel and other functions, one-click analysis, efficient recognition.

    License model

    • Free • Proprietary

    Country of Origin

    • CN flagChina

    Platforms

    • Online
    Geeekersoft OCR 1

    Geekersoft OCR Word Recognition Features

    1.  OCR
    2.  PDF OCR

    Geekersoft OCR Word Recognition VS Adobe Scan

     
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