Free Microsoft Lens Alternatives for Windows

Microsoft Lens is not available for Windows but there are plenty of alternatives that runs on Windows with similar functionality. The best free Windows alternative is CamScanner. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Microsoft Lens and 14 are free and available for Windows so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free Windows alternatives to Microsoft Lens are GImageReader, NormCap, Crow Translate and Capture2text.

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  1. CamScanner icon

    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.

    142 CamScanner alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
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  2. GImageReader icon

    GImageReader

     74 likes

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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  5. Crow Translate icon

    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.

    94 Crow Translate alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
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  9. Text Grab icon

    Text Grab

     6 likes

    Text Grab is a minimal optical character recognition (OCR) utility for Windows 10/11 which makes all visible text available to be copied.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  10. Photo Scan icon

    Photo Scan

     1 like

    Photo Scan lets you extract text from Images or Photos very easily and efficiently!

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Windows Phone
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  11. SikuliX icon

    SikuliX

     7 likes

    SikuliX automates anything you see on the screen of your desktop computer running Windows, Mac or some Linux/Unix. It uses image recognition.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  12. Screenie for Windows icon

    Screenie for Windows

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    💥 Capture and share your ideas quickly and easily with Screenie - the ultimate screenshot tool for designers, developers, and anyone who needs to share information efficiently. Simply take a snap, annotate it, and copy it to the clipboard in seconds.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  13. pixFront icon

    pixFront

     1 like

    Corrects a particular object in an image to "look like it is seen from the front".

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  14. Quick Scan icon

    Quick Scan

     4 likes

    A scanner utility that enables you to quickly scan documents and manually set the DPI level, preferred file format and JPEG file compression.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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