Microsoft Lens Alternatives for Linux

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.

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  1. GImageReader icon
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    gImageReader is a simple Gtk/Qt front-end to the Tesseract OCR Engine.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  2. NormCap icon
     24 likes

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  3. 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.

    93 Crow Translate alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
     
  4. SikuliX icon
     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
     
  5. Quickly extract text from almost any source: youtube, screencasts, PDFs, webpages, photos, etc. Grab the image and get the text.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
    • elementary OS
     
  6. PaperScan icon
     4 likes

    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.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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