CamScanner AlternativesOnly apps categorised as OCR Engines

The best OCR Engine alternative to CamScanner is OSS Document Scanner, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to CamScanner and nine of them are OCR Engines so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting OCR Engine alternatives to CamScanner are Tesseract, Adobe Scan, Nanonets and dpScreenOCR.

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  1. The OSS Document Scanner is a free and Open Source app to transform your mobile device into a powerful document scanner.

    93 OSS Document Scanner alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
    • F-Droid
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  2. Tesseract icon
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    Tesseract.js is a javascript library that gets words in almost any language out of images.

    40 Tesseract alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  3. Adobe Scan icon
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    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.

    134 Adobe Scan alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
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  4. Nanonets icon
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    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...

    79 Nanonets alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  5. OCR software and web service to extract text from image files and PDF. The application is available as online OCR web app, OCR API, or simple to install Windows store application.

    83 (a9t9) Free OCR Software alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Online
    • Windows
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  6. OwlOCR icon
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    OwlOCR 7 is a macOS OCR app for text you can see but cannot select. Capture a screen region, open an image or PDF, paste supported content, or import a photo or scan from an iPhone or iPad. Apple Vision performs fast on-device recognition.

    115 OwlOCR alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  7. SimpleOCR icon
     3 likes

    SimpleOCR is the popular freeware OCR software with hundreds of thousands of users worldwide. SimpleOCR is also a royalty-free OCR SDK for developers to use in their custom applications.

    86 SimpleOCR alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
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  8. CuneiForm icon
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    CuneiForm (OpenOCR) is a text recognition software for printed templates. Manuscripts or PDF-files, the program can not recognize, however, but table structures. The language-model is applicable for 20 languages, and the results can be used as HTML, RTF or ASCII text to save, or...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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