The OSS Document Scanner is a free and Open Source app to transform your mobile device into a powerful document scanner.
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CamScanner AlternativesOnly apps categorised as OCR Engines
The best OCR Engine alternative to CamScanner is OSS Document Scanner, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to CamScanner and nine of them are OCR Engines so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting OCR Engine alternatives to CamScanner are Tesseract, Adobe Scan, dpScreenOCR and Nanonets.
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80 OSS Document Scanner alternatives
30 Tesseract alternativesTesseract.js is a javascript library that gets words in almost any language out of images.
130 Adobe Scan alternativesThe Adobe Scan scanner app turns your device into a powerful portable scanner that recognizes text automatically (OCR) and allows you to save to multiple file formats including PDF and JPEG.
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Nanonets is an LLM based OCR solution that that automates document processing and data extraction workflows. With models that do not rely on pre-defined document templates, Nanonets helps companies automate document-heavy business processes like accounts payable, order...
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76 (a9t9) Free OCR Software alternativesOCR software and web service to extract text from image files and PDF. The application is available as online OCR web app, OCR API, or simple to install Windows store application.
106 OwlOCR alternativesOwlOCR offers simple optical character recognition of text in PDF files, images or on-screen and converts that to plain text.
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SimpleOCR is the popular freeware OCR software with hundreds of thousands of users worldwide. SimpleOCR is also a royalty-free OCR SDK for developers to use in their custom applications.
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...
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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).