Tesseract.js is a javascript library that gets words in almost any language out of images.
Tesseract is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to CamScanner.
- Tesseract is Free and Open Source
CamScanner Alternatives for Mac
There are many alternatives to CamScanner for Mac if you are looking for a replacement. The best Mac alternative is Tesseract, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to CamScanner and many of them are available for Mac so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Mac alternatives to CamScanner are Snagit, NormCap, Preview and Scan Thing: Scan Anything.
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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.
Alternatives list
- 24 Tesseract alternatives
202 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.
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- Proprietary
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167 Preview alternativesNative macOS app for viewing, annotating, and editing images and PDFs, featuring tools for cropping, rotating, resizing images, rearranging pages, full-screen viewing, markup, document merging, batch conversion, and export in multiple formats.
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Scan Thing is the quickest way to capture and save anything around you. Scan Thing is available on iOS, iPadOS, and MacOS.
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- Freemium (Pay once)
- Proprietary
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- iPhone
- iPad
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54 TextSniper alternativesTextSniper is a super useful app to quickly capture unselectable text. Use it to capture and recognize text from presentations, trainings, screencasts,images, pictures, webpages, video tutorials, photos, PDFs etc. Literally from anywhere on your mac's screen.
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- Pay once
- Proprietary
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- Mac
PDF and OCR publishing software (optical character recognition) for MAC & WINDOWS. Do you dream of an intelligent PDF and OCR solution to intuitively manage your documents? You've found it.
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- Pay once
- Proprietary
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- Mac
- Windows
OwlOCR offers simple optical character recognition of text in PDF files, images or on-screen and converts that to plain text.
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- Free
- Proprietary
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- Mac
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- Freemium (Pay once)
- Proprietary
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- Mac
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- Freemium (Pay once or Subscription)
- Proprietary
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- Mac
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A Java/.NET GUI frontend for Tesseract OCR engine. Provides optical character recognition for Vietnamese and other languages supported by Tesseract.
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