Free Microsoft Lens AlternativesTop Image & Document Scanners like Microsoft Lens

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   FairScan

    39 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.

   23 FairScan alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (GPL-3.0)

   Application type

   • Document Scanner

   Origin

   • France
   • EU

   Platforms

   • Android
   • F-Droid

   

   

   

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   OSS Document Scanner

    69 likes

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

   80 OSS Document Scanner alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (MIT)

   Application types

   • Document Scanner
   • Image Scanner

   Origin

   • France
   • EU

   Platforms

   • Android
   • iPhone
   • F-Droid

   

   

   

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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.

   46 Google Lens alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Proprietary

   Application types

   • Image Search Engine
   • Image Scanner

   Origin

   • United States

   Platforms

   • Online
   • Android
   • iPhone
   • Android Tablet
   • iPad

   

   

   

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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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   CamScanner

    73 likes

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

   135 CamScanner alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Freemium
   • Proprietary

   Application types

   • Document Scanner
   • Image Scanner

   Origin

   • China

   Platforms

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

   

   

   

   +6

   

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   Guest

   Positive comment•Feb 11, 2017

   0

   can insert multiple photos

   Review by a new / low-activity user.

   

   

   • CamScanner is Freemium and ProprietaryMicrosoft Lens is Free and Proprietary
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   GImageReader

    74 likes

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

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application type

   • Screenshot Capture

   Origin

   • Switzerland

   Platforms

   • Windows
   • Linux

   

   

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   NormCap

    24 likes

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

   65 NormCap alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application type

   • Screenshot Capture

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Linux

   

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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

    Platforms

    • iPhone

    

    

    

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    Preview

     123 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.

    175 Preview alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    • PDF Reader
    • Image Viewer

    Origin

    • United States

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad

    

    

    

    +6

    

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    Crow Translate

     36 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.

    88 Crow Translate alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (GPL-3.0)

    Application type

    • Translator

    Origin

    • Ukraine

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub

    

    

    

    +5

    

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    Genius Scan

     13 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.

    67 Genius Scan alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    • Document Scanner

    Origin

    • France
    • EU

    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone

    

    

    

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    RemovedUser

    Positive comment•Oct 29, 2021

    0

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

    Review by a new / low-activity user.

    gpm4pqqtddyg

    Positive comment•Mar 13, 2017

    -2

    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!

    Review by a new / low-activity user.

    

    

    • Genius Scan is Freemium and ProprietaryMicrosoft Lens is Free and Proprietary
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    Capture2text

     34 likes

    Capture2Text enables users to quickly OCR a portion of the screen using a keyboard shortcut.

    63 Capture2text alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    • Screenshot Capture

    Origin

    • United States

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows

    

    

    

    +9

    

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    OpenScan

     26 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.".

    114 OpenScan alternatives

    Cost / License

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

    Application types

    • Document Scanner
    • Image Scanner

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Android

    

    

    

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