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CamScanner Alternatives Filtered by 'Mobile Scanner'
The best alternative to CamScanner 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. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to CamScanner and many of them are so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting alternatives to CamScanner are FairScan, Google Lens, OpenScan and Open Scanner.
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CamScanner alternatives are mainly Document Scanners, but if you're looking for Image Scanners or Document Managers 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
71 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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- Discontinued
Platforms
- 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.
38 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
Application type
Platforms
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
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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
Open Scanner is a fast and simple-to-use paper-scanning app with AI features to speed up your scanning workflow:
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123 Adobe Scan alternativesThe 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.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Application types
Platforms
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
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Simple Scan is the quick, easy way to scan paper documents to optimized, searchable PDF documents (or images) and send them almost anywhere.
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60 Genius Scan alternativesGenius Scan is a scanner in your pocket. Quickly scan your documents on the go and export them as JPEG or multi-page PDF files.
Genius Scan vs CamScanner Comments
brunettonUsing AI to detect pages borders, and good filters to remove shadows + no need to enter any personal information + no ads + export to jpg / pdf => Really good to me !
- Genius Scan is Freemium and Proprietary
With the Scanbot Document Scanner SDK, companies can easily equip their mobile and web applications with a fast, accurate, and user-friendly mobile document scanner.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Android
- iPhone
- React Native
- Flutter
- Xamarin Studio
- WebAssembly
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Scanbot Document Scanner SDK vs CamScanner Comments
With Android, no way to organize the scans using tags or folders
- Scanbot Document Scanner SDK is Paid and Proprietary
- Scanbot Document Scanner SDK is Lightweight and Privacy focused
Scan Thing is the quickest way to capture and save anything around you. Scan Thing is available on iOS, iPadOS, and MacOS.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Application types
Platforms
- iPhone
- iPad
- Mac
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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).