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CamScanner

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Your portable scanner. Use your camera to get high quality scans of paper documents, receipts, notes and more. Anytime, anywhere.

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License model

  • FreemiumProprietary

Country of Origin

  • GB flagUnited Kingdom

Platforms

  • Mac
  • Windows
  • Online
  • Android
  • iPhone
  • Android Tablet
  • iPad
2.4 / 5 Avg rating (9)
71likes
11comments

Features

Suggest and vote on features
  1.  Export to PDF
  2.  Scanner
  3.  Scan documents
  4.  Annotate Screenshot
  5.  Mobile Scanner
  6.  PDF OCR
  7.  OCR
  8.  No registration required
  9.  Scan to PDF
  10.  Client side encryption
  11.  Sync with Google Drive
  12. Dropbox icon  Sync with Dropbox
  13.  Document structure management
  14.  Support for Batch Mode

 Tags

  • scan-to-fax
  • hardware-scanners
  • scans
  • scanning
  • scan-to-online

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  • gleyconjeferson reviewed CamScanner  
    about 1 month ago

    It used to be a good program back when I used it on Windows Phone 8. Now it's just a mercenary program that charges a monthly fee to use.

    IT workers have lost touch with reality. They've become true mercenaries. They're extorting people!

    When will this wave of extortion end?

    This app could cost R$ 79.00 for a one-time purchase. But it costs R$ 79.00 as a rental! This is absurd!

    For those who still don't understand how absurd this is: if a house in the real world costs one million dollars...

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    frogue added CamScanner as alternative to Klippa DocHorizon
    about 2 months ago
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    justarandom added CamScanner as alternative to Google PhotoScan
    2 months ago
  • muhammadfarag added OCR as a feature to CamScanner
    4 months ago
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    Erin_tt added CamScanner as alternative to PDNob Image Translator
    5 months ago
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    pastel_p1xel_punK added CamScanner as alternative to Project Naptha
    6 months ago
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    justarandom added CamScanner as alternative to Scan Thing: Scan Anything
    7 months ago
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    POX added CamScanner as alternative to Simple Scan • Quick Scanner
    7 months ago
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    POX added CamScanner as alternative to Open Scanner
    7 months ago
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    1025sxr added CamScanner as alternative to OCRify
    8 months ago
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CamScanner information

  • Developed by

    GB flagIntSig Information Co., Ltd.
  • Licensing

    Proprietary and Freemium product.
  • Pricing

    One time purchase (perpetual license) that costs $0 + free version with limited functionality.
  • Rating

    Average rating of 2.4
  • Alternatives

    117 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English
    • Arabic
    • Bengali
    • French
    • German
    • Hindi
    • Indonesian
    • Italian
    • Japanese
    • Korean
    • Malay
    • Polish
    • Portuguese
    • Russian
    • Chinese
    • Spanish
    • Thai
    • Turkish
    • Vietnamese

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  •   Updated Mar 19, 2025
  •   4.86 avg rating
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Our users have written 11 comments and reviews about CamScanner, and it has gotten 71 likes

CamScanner was added to AlternativeTo by aleung on Jan 11, 2011 and this page was last updated Mar 29, 2023.

Comments and Reviews

   
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Top Positive Comment
silk186
May 1, 2017
1

I've been using this app for a couple years now. I use it more and more but was always bothered by the watermark at the bottom. A few times I've clicked upgrade to premium but it has a monthly fee which I'm unwilling to pay. Out of curiosity I checked the app store and found that I can remove the ads (which didn't bother me) and watermark (which did) for a small cost. With the paid version I have no complaints.

ushabuntu
Jul 12, 2017

very useful tip. thanks!

Top Negative Comment
hellih
Jun 25, 2019
7

Very bad Company, Once there were just 2 Version (free & paid) i paid for the ad-free, fully functional version. Now they've cropped the paid version in functionality (e.g. folder limitation) and added a premium version with monthly fee.

gleyconjeferson
Mar 17, 2025
0

It used to be a good program back when I used it on Windows Phone 8. Now it's just a mercenary program that charges a monthly fee to use.

IT workers have lost touch with reality. They've become true mercenaries. They're extorting people!

When will this wave of extortion end?

This app could cost R$ 79.00 for a one-time purchase. But it costs R$ 79.00 as a rental! This is absurd!

For those who still don't understand how absurd this is: if a house in the real world costs one million dollars for you to buy, but the real estate agency offers it to you for one million annually as a subscription. Only a rich person with no regard for their money would do that.

Developers, come back to the real world.

NejyCR
Sep 6, 2023
3

I purchased it back when it originally released years ago. I started using it again recently to scan & upload documents, but was saddened by what I saw. Like every other app out there, CamScanner has moved from the one-time purchase model over to subscription.

With how infrequently I use this app, it isn't worth it. The subscription probably wouldn't be worth it even if I did use it more.

Sam Lander
Jul 5, 2023
0

I usually only use open-source apps whenever possible, but haven't found anything to compete with this yet. It quickly auto-crops pages fairly accurately, and provides small black and white copies if you wish.

Edit: OSS Document Scanner filters images better into B&W. The camera doesn't work well with GrapheneOS, but I just take it with the normal camera and import there now.

Robert
Nov 24, 2022
3

Used to be great, but now shows full-screen ads although I paid for the ad-free version.

Duncan Briggs
Feb 19, 2020
4

AlternativeTo says, "As reported by several news articles, old Android versions of Camscanner were infected by malware and removed by the Google Play Store. Android Police verified that versions released between June and July 2019 included that malware."

https://www.androidpolice.com/2019/08/28/camscanner-play-store-malware/

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What is CamScanner?

CamScanner turns your phone into a portable scanner. Archive all your paper documents, receipts, notes, whiteboard discussions anywhere and anytime. Camscanner's Smart Image cropping and Image enhancement algorithm ensures the scanned images are perfectly clear and recognizable. Camscanner Free contains ads, Camscanner+ is commercial.

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