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The Best CamScanner AlternativesTop Document & Image Scanners like CamScanner
CamScanner is described as 'Your portable scanner. Use your camera to get high quality scans of paper documents, receipts, notes and more. Anytime, anywhere' and is a popular Image Scanner in the photos & graphics category. There are more than 100 alternatives to CamScanner for a variety of platforms, including Android, iPhone, Windows, iPad and Web-based apps. The best CamScanner alternative is Pocket Scanner. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try OSS Document Scanner or Open Note Scanner. Other great apps like CamScanner are FairScan, Tesseract, Google Lens and Snagit.
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CamScanner alternatives are mainly Document Scanners, but if you're looking for Screenshot Capture Tools or Image Scanners 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.
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116 Pocket Scanner alternatives
73 OSS Document Scanner alternativesThe 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.
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OSS Document Scanner vs CamScanner Comments
- OSS Document Scanner is Free and Open Source
- OSS Document Scanner is Lightweight and Privacy focused
This little application provides a way on scanning handwritten notes and printed documents.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
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- Android
- Android Tablet
- F-Droid
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Open Note Scanner vs CamScanner Comments
One of the few - perhaps even the only - open source scanning apps for Android. Gives comparable results to Camscanner. Needs OpenCV Manager to be installed, but that's a formality (the latter requires no permissions.)
Shahin RmzI could never scan a document with this app.
- Open Note Scanner is Free and Open Source
- Open Note Scanner is Lightweight
17 FairScan alternativesAndroid document scanner offering multi-page PDF creation, automatic detection, image enhancement, and distraction-free interface, all open-source. No ads, cloud, watermarks, or tracking—scans remain on your device. Minimal permissions ensure privacy and transparency.
26 Tesseract alternativesTesseract.js is a javascript library that gets words in almost any language out of images.
41 Google Lens alternativesGoogle Lens lets you search what you see, get things done faster, and understand the world around you—using just your camera or a photo.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
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- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
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209 Snagit alternativesAdvanced screen capture and recording tool enabling image or video captures directly from your screen. Includes editing features like callouts, transparency, and effects to enhance visuals. Organize and easily share creations through documents, presentations, or favorite applications.
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111 OpenScan alternativesOpenScan is an open source app that enables users to scan hardcopies of documents or notes and convert it to PDF or JPEG files. Its motto is "No ads. No data collection. We respect your privacy.".
OpenScan vs CamScanner Comments
brunettonUnfortunately no filters like "real" scan apps; so this is basically the original photo
headlinesVery fast and extremely easy to use. No ads or privacy scandals. Free and open source. Scans, crops, and touches up documents as well as CamScanner.
- OpenScan is Free and Open Source
- OpenScan is Privacy focused
59 Open Scanner alternativesOpen Scanner is a fast and simple-to-use paper-scanning app with AI features to speed up your scanning workflow:
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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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OSS Document Scanner is more lightweight, and has better filters. It condenses the files similarly as CamScanner, but the text is more clear.
The only problem is that for my phone (GrapheneOS), I have to take photos with camera and import them in the app, because for whatever reason it makes the images blurry when I take the photo in the app itself. This may be because of my Android operating system.
But it's smaller, open-source, and outputs better images (textbook pages).