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    CamScanner Alternatives

    CamScanner is described as 'turns your phone into a portable scanner. Archive all your paper documents, receipts, notes, whiteboard discussions anywhere and anytime' and is a popular Document Scanner in the System & Hardware category. There are more than 50 alternatives to CamScanner for a variety of platforms, including Android, iPhone, Windows, iPad and Android Tablet. The best alternative is Pocket Scanner. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Microsoft Lens or Open Note Scanner. Other great apps like CamScanner are GImageReader (Free, Open Source), Tesseract (Free, Open Source), Google Lens (Free) and OpenScan (Free, Open Source).

    This page was last updated Apr 5, 2022
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    • Freemium • Proprietary
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
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    CamScanner turns your phone into a portable scanner. Archive all your paper documents, receipts, notes, whiteboard...
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    1. Pocket Scanner Ultimate is the stand-alone version of Kdan’s Pocket Scanner series. Search “Pocket Scanner Cloud” in the App Store and try out the app & cloud services for free!
      Almost everyone thinks Pocket Scanner is a great alternative to CamScanner.
    2. Microsoft Lens trims, enhances, and makes pictures of whiteboards and docs readable. You can use Office Lens to convert images to PDF, Word and PowerPoint files, and you can even save images to OneNote or OneDrive.
      Microsoft Lens vs CamScanner opinions
      Some users think Microsoft Lens is a great alternative to CamScanner, some don't.
      Doesn't clear up text nearly as well as cam scanner. Doesn't have nice folder/file management system (have to save immediately as an image, or to OneDrive). Feels like cam-scanner 0.5 in terms of functionality.
      Negative comment • almost 3 years ago

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      It's free, and it has all the requirements I needed such as convert into PDF and images. It also provides OCR, wow
      Positive comment • over 1 year ago

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      because can't take foccus
      Negative comment • over 2 years ago

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      Automatic touch up and croping
      Positive comment • over 4 years ago

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    4. This little application provides a way on scanning handwritten notes and printed documents.
      Open Note Scanner vs CamScanner opinions
      Most users think Open Note Scanner is a great alternative to CamScanner.
      JohnFastman 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.)
      Positive comment • over 5 years ago

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    5. GImageReader

      • Free • Open Source
      • Windows
      • Linux
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      gImageReader is a simple Gtk/Qt front-end to the Tesseract OCR Engine.

    6. Tesseract

      • Free • Open Source
      • Mac
      • Windows
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      Tesseract.js is a javascript library that gets words in almost any language out of images.

    8. Google Lens

      • Free • Proprietary
      • Android
      • iPhone
      • Android Tablet
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      With Google Lens you can get information about items around you, like landmarks, posters, or barcodes, using your phone's camera.
    9. OpenScan 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.".
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      OpenScan vs CamScanner opinions
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      headlines Very 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.
      Positive comment • about 1 year ago

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    10. Adobe Scan turns your device into a powerful portable scanner that recognizes text automatically (OCR).
      Most users think Adobe Scan is a great alternative to CamScanner.
    11. Screenshot Reader is a smart OCR-screenshot application for capturing text and images from any area on your PC screen and extracting text from them or just saving as an image. Prize: 9.99 USD.
    12. 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.
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