CamScanner Alternatives

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 Android, iPhone, Windows, iPad and Web-based apps. The best CamScanner alternative is OSS Document Scanner, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like CamScanner are Pocket Scanner, Open Note Scanner, Tesseract and Google Lens.

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CamScanner alternatives are mainly Document Scanners, but if you're looking for Screenshot Capture Tools or Image Scanners you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Android + Open Source, Open Source, Windows, 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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    Extract PDF data to JSON format with our automated tool. No manual intervention is required.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  2. Vizion icon
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    Never get annoyed by unselectable text on websites, PDFs, images or system user interfaces again. Just select the region of your screen in the same manner as you would take a screenshot and find all recognized text in your clipboard ready to get pasted anywhere.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  3. CuneiForm icon
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    CuneiForm (OpenOCR) is a text recognition software for printed templates. Manuscripts or PDF-files, the program can not recognize, however, but table structures. The language-model is applicable for 20 languages, and the results can be used as HTML, RTF or ASCII text to save, or...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    Transym OCR (TOCR) is a leading provider of highly sophisticated, accurate and reliable optical character recognition software for developers.

    49 Transym OCR alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  5. Free-OCR.com icon
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    Free-OCR.com is a free online OCR (Optical Character Recognition) tool. You can use this service to extract text from any image you supply.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  6. SikuliX icon
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    SikuliX automates anything you see on the screen of your desktop computer running Windows, Mac or some Linux/Unix. It uses image recognition.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    Free OCR to Word is text recognition software that performs all your tedious retyping and recreating work at lightning speed into Word documents you can edit on your PC or archive in a document repository.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Bundleware

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    ImageToText app allows you to extract editable ASCII text from images, and share the results by EMAIL or EVERNOTE.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • iPhone
     
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    Provides accurate and fast text detection from any image file downloaded from your device or taken with a snapshot. It also supports textual detection of a PDF and text-based handwriting detection and text translation in 114 different languages.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    Advanced OCR (optical character recognition) web application for creating editable and searchable electronic files from scanned paper documents and digital photographs.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
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    Business Card Scanner app for organizing and digitizing paper card data. Also, its online source offers full-fledged image to text converter to grab text from images.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  12. WatchOCR icon
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    WatchOCR is an open source OCR server that creates searchable pdfs from images in a watched folder.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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