Open Source CamScanner AlternativesDocument & Image Scanners like CamScanner

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   FairScan

    45 likes

   Android 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.

   39 FairScan alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (GPL-3.0)

   Application typeApplication types

   • Document Scanner
   • Image Scanner

   Origin

   • France
   • EU

   Platforms

   • Android
   • F-Droid
   • OpenAPK

   • France
   • EU

   

   

   

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   FairScan vs CamScanner Comments

   Positive comment by echtintelligenteruhu · Jul 5, 2026

   It has really good scan quality, something other alternatives often fail at. It's minimalistic and just works.

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   • FairScan is Free and Open SourceCamScanner is Freemium and Proprietary
   • FairScan is Lightweight and Privacy focusedCamScanner is not according to our users
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   OSS Document Scanner

    70 likes

   The OSS Document Scanner is a free and Open Source app to transform your mobile device into a powerful document scanner.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (MIT)

   Application typeApplication types

   • Document Scanner
   • Image Scanner

   Origin

   • France
   • EU

   Platforms

   • Android
   • iPhone
   • F-Droid

   • France
   • EU

   

   

   

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   Positive comment by Sam Lander · Jan 26, 2024

   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).

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   • OSS Document Scanner is Free and Open SourceCamScanner is Freemium and Proprietary
   • OSS Document Scanner is Lightweight and Privacy focusedCamScanner is not according to our users
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   MakeACopy

    21 likes

   MakeACopy is an open-source document scanner app for Android that allows you to digitize paper documents with OCR functionality. The app is designed to be privacy-friendly, working completely offline without any cloud connection or tracking.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application typeApplication types

   • Image Scanner
   • Document Scanner

   Origin

   • Germany
   • EU

   Platforms

   • Android
   • F-Droid
   • OpenAPK

   • Germany
   • EU

   

   

   

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   Tesseract

    111 likes

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

   46 Tesseract alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application type

   • OCR Engine

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Linux

   

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   NormCap

    26 likes

   OCR powered screen-capture tool to capture information instead of images.

   78 NormCap alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application type

   • Screenshot Capture

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Linux

   

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   GImageReader

    76 likes

   gImageReader is a simple Gtk/Qt front-end to the Tesseract OCR Engine.

   122 GImageReader alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application type

   • Screenshot Capture

   Origin

   • Switzerland

   Platforms

   • Windows
   • Linux

   • Switzerland

   

   

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   OpenScan

    28 likes

   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.".

   130 OpenScan alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (BSD-3-Clause)

   Application typeApplication types

   • Document Scanner
   • Image Scanner

   Platforms

   • Android

   

   

   

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   OpenScan vs CamScanner Comments

   Positive comment by brunetton · May 24, 2022

   Unfortunately no filters like "real" scan apps; so this is basically the original photo

   Positive comment by headlines · Apr 7, 2021

   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.

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   • OpenScan is Free and Open SourceCamScanner is Freemium and Proprietary
   • OpenScan is Privacy focusedCamScanner is not according to our users
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    Crow Translate

     38 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.

    108 Crow Translate alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (GPL-3.0)

    Application type

    • Translator

    Origin

    • Ukraine

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak

    • Ukraine

    

    

    

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    Open Scanner

     13 likes

    Open Scanner is a fast and simple-to-use paper-scanning app with AI features to speed up your scanning workflow:

    82 Open Scanner alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    • Document Scanner

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • iPhone

    

    

    

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    Open Note Scanner

     40 likes

    This little application provides a way on scanning handwritten notes and printed documents.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    • Document Scanner

    Origin

    • Brazil

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Android
    • Android Tablet
    • F-Droid

    • Brazil

    

    

    

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    Discontinued

    Not 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

    Positive comment by John Fastman · Jan 2, 2017

    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.)

    Negative comment by Shahin Rmz · May 31, 2023

    I could never scan a document with this app.

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    • Open Note Scanner is Free and Open SourceCamScanner is Freemium and Proprietary
    • Open Note Scanner is LightweightCamScanner is not according to our users
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    Capture2text

     34 likes

    Capture2Text enables users to quickly OCR a portion of the screen using a keyboard shortcut.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    • Screenshot Capture

    Origin

    • United States

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows

    • United States

    

    

    

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    dpScreenOCR

     11 likes

    A program to recognize text on the screen.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (Zlib)

    Application typeApplication types

    • Screenshot Capture
    • Document Scanner

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD

    

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