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 Windows
There are many alternatives to CamScanner for Windows if you are looking for a replacement. The best Windows 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 Windows so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Windows alternatives to CamScanner are Snagit, GImageReader, NormCap and Crow Translate.
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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 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.
Alternatives list
- 24 Tesseract alternatives
201 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.
Cost / License
- Subscription
- Proprietary
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- Mac
- Windows
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78 Crow Translate alternativesCrow 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.
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59 Capture2text alternativesCapture2Text enables users to quickly OCR a portion of the screen using a keyboard shortcut.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Windows
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62 ABBYY Screenshot Reader alternativesScreenshot Reader is a smart OCR-screenshot application for capturing text and images from any area on your PC screen and extracting text from them or just saving as an image. Prize: 9.99 USD.
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Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
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- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
87 FreeOCR alternativesFreeOCR 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
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- Windows
62 Text Grab alternativesText Grab is a minimal optical character recognition (OCR) utility for Windows 10/11 which makes all visible text available to be copied.
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Cost / License
- Freemium (Pay once)
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Windows
- Windows Phone
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66 Readiris alternativesPDF 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.
Cost / License
- Pay once
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
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