The Best Microsoft Lens AlternativesTop Document & Image Scanners like Microsoft Lens

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   FairScan

    45 likes

   Android document scanner offering multi-page PDF creation, automatic detection, image enhancement, and distraction-free interface, all open-source. No ads, cloud, watermarks, or tracking—scans remain on your device. Minimal permissions ensure privacy and transparency.

   37 FairScan alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (GPL-3.0)

   Application typeApplication types

   • Document Scanner
   • Image Scanner

   Origin

   • France
   • EU

   Platforms

   • Android
   • F-Droid
   • OpenAPK

   • France
   • EU

   

   

   

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   OSS Document Scanner

    70 likes

   The OSS Document Scanner is a free and Open Source app to transform your mobile device into a powerful document scanner.

   100 OSS Document Scanner alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (MIT)

   Application typeApplication types

   • Document Scanner
   • Image Scanner

   Origin

   • France
   • EU

   Platforms

   • Android
   • iPhone
   • F-Droid

   • France
   • EU

   

   

   

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   Google Lens

    67 likes

   Google Lens lets you search what you see, get things done faster, and understand the world around you—using just your camera or a photo.

   59 Google Lens alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Proprietary

   Application typeApplication types

   • Image Search Engine
   • Image Scanner

   Origin

   • United States

   Platforms

   • Online
   • Android
   • iPhone
   • Android Tablet
   • iPad

   • United States

   

   

   

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   Adobe Scan

   The 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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   NormCap

    26 likes

   OCR powered screen-capture tool to capture information instead of images.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application type

   • Screenshot Capture

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Linux

   

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   GImageReader

    76 likes

   gImageReader is a simple Gtk/Qt front-end to the Tesseract OCR Engine.

   119 GImageReader alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application type

   • Screenshot Capture

   Origin

   • Switzerland

   Platforms

   • Windows
   • Linux

   • Switzerland

   

   

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   Snagit

    202 likes

   Advanced 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.

   263 Snagit alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Paid
   • Proprietary

   Application typeApplication types

   • Screenshot Capture
   • Screen Recorder

   Origin

   • United States

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows

   • United States

   

   

   

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    CamScanner

     74 likes

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

    161 CamScanner alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application typeApplication types

    • Document Scanner
    • Image Scanner

    Origin

    • China

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad

    • China

    

    

    

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    Positive comment by Guest · Feb 11, 2017

    can insert multiple photos

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    • CamScanner is Freemium and ProprietaryMicrosoft Lens is Free and Proprietary
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    Crow Translate

     38 likes

    Crow 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.

    109 Crow Translate alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (GPL-3.0)

    Application type

    • Translator

    Origin

    • Ukraine

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak

    • Ukraine

    

    

    

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    Open Scanner

     13 likes

    Open Scanner is a fast and simple-to-use paper-scanning app with AI features to speed up your scanning workflow:

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    • Document Scanner

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • iPhone

    

    

    

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    Preview

     125 likes

    Native 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.

    193 Preview alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application typeApplication types

    • Image Viewer
    • Image Editor

    Origin

    • United States

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad

    • United States

    

    

    

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    OpenScan

     28 likes

    OpenScan is an open source app that enables users to scan hardcopies of documents or notes and convert it to PDF or JPEG files. Its motto is "No ads. No data collection. We respect your privacy.".

    128 OpenScan alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (BSD-3-Clause)

    Application typeApplication types

    • Document Scanner
    • Image Scanner

    Platforms

    • Android

    

    

    

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    Genius Scan

     14 likes

    Genius Scan is a scanner in your pocket. Quickly scan your documents on the go and export them as JPEG or multi-page PDF files.

    89 Genius Scan alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    • Document Scanner

    Origin

    • France
    • EU

    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone

    • France
    • EU

    

    

    

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    Positive comment by RemovedUser · Oct 29, 2021

    The free version is in the best Scan app for Androïd I tested. Simple, efficient. No adds just less features

    Positive comment by gpm4pqqtddyg · Mar 13, 2017

    Magic Mode makes scanning multipage documents fast and easy (no need to snap a picture, the app automatically detects the document in the picture). Also, powerful document organization with smart naming and tags. It supports PDF merging too!

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    • Genius Scan is Freemium and ProprietaryMicrosoft Lens is Free and Proprietary