Microsoft Lens Alternatives

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.

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Microsoft Lens alternatives are mainly Document Scanners, but if you're looking for Screenshot Capture Tools or Image Scanners you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Open Source, Windows, Mac, Linux, Scan documents and Android. You can also filter by region, for example EU-based alternatives if you prefer software developed in the European Union. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to Microsoft Lens.
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  1. OpenScan icon
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    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.".

    111 OpenScan alternatives

    Cost / License

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Android
     
  2. Scanner Pro icon
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    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.

    57 Scanner Pro alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • iPhone
     
  3. QuickScan icon
     3 likes

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
  4. Adobe Scan icon
     14 likes

    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.

    123 Adobe Scan alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
     
  5. Google Stack icon
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    Get rid of paper clutter with Stack. Stack is a PDF scanner, document organizer, and detail finder. All in one.

    105 Google Stack alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Android
     
  6. 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.

    57 Scanbot Document Scanner SDK alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
    • React Native
    • Flutter
    • Xamarin Studio
    • WebAssembly
     
  7. TextSniper icon
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    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.

    58 TextSniper alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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