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 document scanner in the photos & graphics category. There are more than 100 alternatives to CamScanner for a variety of platforms, including iPhone, Android, iPad, Windows and Android Tablet 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 Microsoft Lens. Other great apps like CamScanner are Open Note Scanner, Google Lens, Tesseract and Snagit.
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CamScanner alternatives are mainly Document Scanners, but if you're looking for Image Scanners or Screenshot Capture Tools you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Android + Open Source and Android + Free. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to CamScanner.- Document Scanner
- Freemium • Proprietary
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!
License model
- Paid • Proprietary
Application types
Country of Origin
United Kingdom
Platforms
- iPhone
- iPad
Pocket Scanner Features
Pocket Scanner VS CamScanner
63 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.
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
Country of Origin
France
EU
Platforms
- Android
- iPhone
- F-Droid
OSS Document Scanner VS CamScanner
Comments about OSS Document Scanner as an Alternative to CamScanner
74 Microsoft Lens alternativesMicrosoft 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.
License model
- Free • Proprietary
Application type
Country of Origin
United States
Platforms
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
Top Microsoft Lens Features
Microsoft Lens VS CamScanner
Comments about Microsoft Lens as an Alternative to CamScanner
Most Recent CommentDoesn'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.
It's free, and it has all the requirements I needed such as convert into PDF and images. It also provides OCR, wow
Automatic touch up and croping
This little application provides a way on scanning handwritten notes and printed documents.
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application type
Country of Origin
Brazil
Platforms
- Android
- Android Tablet
- F-Droid
DiscontinuedNot updated in 3 years. Google Play store says not compatible with current OS, and if you download from F-Droid it asks you to direct download another app to use it, which is not on Google Play or F-Droid.
Open Note Scanner VS CamScanner
Comments about Open Note Scanner as an Alternative to CamScanner
John FastmanOne 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.
27 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.
License model
- Free • Proprietary
Application types
Country of Origin
- United States
Platforms
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
Google Lens Features
Google Lens VS CamScanner
19 Tesseract alternativesTesseract.js is a javascript library that gets words in almost any language out of images.
Tesseract Features
Tesseract VS CamScanner
193 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.
License model
- Paid • Proprietary
Application types
Country of Origin
- United States
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
Top Snagit Features
Snagit VS CamScanner
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application type
Country of Origin
Switzerland
Platforms
- Windows
- Linux
GImageReader Features
GImageReader VS CamScanner
NormCap VS CamScanner
72 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.
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application type
Country of Origin
Ukraine
Platforms
- Windows
- Linux
- Flathub
Crow Translate VS CamScanner
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).