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




Microsoft Lens is described as 'Trims, enhances, and straightens scanned documents or whiteboards, exports to PDF, Word, or PowerPoint, supports text extraction, and saves to cloud storage' and is a document scanner in the photos & graphics category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Microsoft Lens for a variety of platforms, including Android, iPhone, Windows, iPad and Android Tablet apps. The best Microsoft Lens alternative is Pocket Scanner. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try OSS Document Scanner or FairScan. Other great apps like Microsoft Lens are Google Lens, CamScanner, Snagit and GImageReader.
Capture2Text enables users to quickly OCR a portion of the screen using a keyboard shortcut.




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.".



Simple Scan is the quick, easy way to scan paper documents to optimized, searchable PDF documents (or images) and send them almost anywhere.




Scanner Pro turns your iPhone into portable scanner in your pocket. It lets you scan multipage documents, email them and even upload to Dropbox, MobileMe iDisk or any other WebDAV enabled server.




The app is 100% FREE, with NO ads and NO data collection. Donations are possible to support the project.




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.




Get rid of paper clutter with Stack. Stack is a PDF scanner, document organizer, and detail finder. All in one.








With the Scanbot Document Scanner SDK, companies can easily equip their mobile and web applications with a fast, accurate, and user-friendly mobile document scanner.




TextSniper is a super useful app to quickly capture unselectable text. Use it to capture and recognize text from presentations, trainings, screencasts,images, pictures, webpages, video tutorials, photos, PDFs etc. Literally from anywhere on your mac's screen.




Screenshot Reader is a smart OCR-screenshot application for capturing text and images from any area on your PC screen and extracting text from them or just saving as an image. Prize: 9.99 USD.



