Free CamScanner Alternatives for Windows

There are many alternatives to CamScanner for Windows if you are looking for a replacement. The best free Windows alternative is Tesseract, which is also Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to CamScanner and many of them are free and available for Windows so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free Windows alternatives to CamScanner are GImageReader, NormCap, Crow Translate and Capture2text.

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CamScanner alternatives are mainly Screenshot Capture Tools, but if you're looking for Document Scanners or OCR Engines 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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  1. Tesseract icon

    Tesseract

     110 likes

    Tesseract.js is a javascript library that gets words in almost any language out of images.

    26 Tesseract alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  5. Crow Translate icon

    Crow Translate

     36 likes

    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.

    80 Crow Translate alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    Crow Translate screenshot 1
     
  9. FreeOCR icon

    FreeOCR

     29 likes

    FreeOCR is a scan & OCR program including the Tesseract free ocr engine, also known as a Tesseract GUI. It includes a Windows installer, and it is very simple to use.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    FreeOCR screenshot 1
     
  10. Text Grab icon

    Text Grab

     6 likes

    Text Grab is a minimal optical character recognition (OCR) utility for Windows 10/11 which makes all visible text available to be copied.

    66 Text Grab alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Text Grab screenshot 1
     
  11. Photo Scan icon

    Photo Scan

     1 like

    Photo Scan lets you extract text from Images or Photos very easily and efficiently!

    94 Photo Scan alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Windows Phone
    Photo Scan screenshot 1
     
  13. pixFront icon

    pixFront

     1 like

    Corrects a particular object in an image to "look like it is seen from the front".

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Main window of PixFront
     
  14. VietOCR icon

    VietOCR

     7 likes

    A Java/.NET GUI frontend for Tesseract OCR engine. Provides optical character recognition for Vietnamese and other languages supported by Tesseract.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    VietOCR.NET on Windows 10 (Version 6.14.0 of 16 November 2024 runs on Tesseract 5.5.0)
     
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