Open Source Microsoft Lens Alternatives for Windows

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

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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

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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  4. 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.

    85 Crow Translate alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    Crow Translate screenshot 1
     
  7. 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.

    67 Text Grab alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Text Grab screenshot 1
     
  9. 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
    SikuliX screenshot 1
     
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    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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