CamScanner Alternatives

CamScanner is described as 'Your portable scanner. Use your camera to get high quality scans of paper documents, receipts, notes and more. Anytime, anywhere' and is a popular document scanner in the photos & graphics category. There are more than 100 alternatives to CamScanner for a variety of platforms, including Android, iPhone, Windows, iPad and Web-based apps. The best CamScanner alternative is Pocket Scanner. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try OSS Document Scanner or Open Note Scanner. Other great apps like CamScanner are Tesseract, Google Lens, Snagit and GImageReader.

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CamScanner 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, Android, Android + Free, Scan documents, Free and Android + Open Source. 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 CamScanner.
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  1. TextSniper icon

    TextSniper

     13 likes

    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.

    55 TextSniper alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  2. FreeOCR icon

    FreeOCR

     29 likes

    FreeOCR is a scan & OCR program including the Tesseract free ocr engine, also known as a Tesseract GUI. It includes a Windows installer, and it is very simple to use.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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    Adobe Scan

    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.

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  6. ABBYY FineScanner icon

    ABBYY FineScanner

     5 likes

    ABBYY FineScanner is a mobile scanner that allows you to quickly create digital copies of documents that contain images and text, including contracts, articles, instructions and leaflets by using your device’s camera.

    49 ABBYY FineScanner alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once or Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
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  7. Scan Now icon

    Scan Now

     3 likes

    A fast and simple app for document scanning on iOS.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
  8. Nanonets icon

    Nanonets

     1 like

    Nanonets is an LLM based OCR solution that that automates document processing and data extraction workflows. With models that do not rely on pre-defined document templates, Nanonets helps companies automate document-heavy business processes like accounts payable, order...

    61 Nanonets alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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    • Nanonets is the most popular SaaS alternative to CamScanner.

    • Nanonets is Freemium and ProprietaryCamScanner is also Freemium and Proprietary
    • Nanonets is Privacy focusedCamScanner is not according to our users
  10. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  11. fileee icon

    fileee

     5 likes

    With fileee you can scan, organize and access your documents anywhere, anytime. fileee analyzes your documents, automatically recognizes important content and sorts your documents accordingly. Thanks to fileee, you always have your documents at hand and can find what you need in...

    63 fileee alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
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  12. Scanit icon

    Scanit

     1 like

    Meet Scanit, a simple yet powerful scanner app that lets you quickly scan any kind of documents and convert them into PDF’s.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once or Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad
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  13. Photo Scan icon

    Photo Scan

     1 like

    Photo Scan lets you extract text from Images or Photos very easily and efficiently!

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Windows Phone
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  14. Klippa DocHorizon icon

    Klippa DocHorizon

     2 likes

    DocHorizon is an AI-powered document processing platform that automates data extraction, fraud detection, identity verification, anonymization, and e-invoicing.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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