Open Source Microsoft Lens AlternativesTop Document & Image Scanners like Microsoft Lens

The best open source alternative to Microsoft Lens is OSS Document Scanner. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Microsoft Lens and 19 is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to Microsoft Lens are FairScan, GImageReader, NormCap and Open Scanner.

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  1. The OSS Document Scanner is an Open Source app to scan all your documents. You either scan using your camera or by importing an image. The app will automatically detect you document within the photo and will crop the image.

    72 OSS Document Scanner alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
    • F-Droid
     
  2. FairScan icon
     27 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.

    17 FairScan alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
    • F-Droid
     
  3. GImageReader icon
     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
     
  4. NormCap icon
     22 likes

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  5. Open Scanner icon
     12 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

    Platforms

    • iPhone
     
  6. Crow Translate icon
     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.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
     
  7. OpenScan icon
     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.".

    Cost / License

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Android
     
  8. PDF Doc Scan icon
     3 likes

    Main point of this app is to scan or select existing PDF documents simply using intent or chooser. Other apps require payment to access their api/sdk or simply don't have a possible way to do it. So they rely on switching between an app ,file chooser and a scanner.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Android
    • F-Droid
     
  9. This little application provides a way on scanning handwritten notes and printed documents.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Android
    • Android Tablet
    • F-Droid
     
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    Open Note Scanner vs Microsoft Lens Comments
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    Positive
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    Doesn't crash, easy install, easy to use, free, no ads.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    • Open Note Scanner is Free and Open SourceMicrosoft Lens is Free and Proprietary
    • Open Note Scanner is LightweightMicrosoft Lens is not according to our users
  10. Text Grab icon
     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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