

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



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.





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

Quickly extract text from almost any source: youtube, screencasts, PDFs, webpages, photos, etc. Grab the image and get the text.



PaperScan Scanner Software is a powerful TWAIN and WIA scanning application with an OCR engine centered on one idea: making document acquisition an unparalleled easy task for anyone.


