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 Google Lens. Other great apps like Microsoft Lens are CamScanner, GImageReader, Snagit and NormCap.

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  1. This little application provides a way on scanning handwritten notes and printed documents.

    50 Open Note Scanner alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Android
    • Android Tablet
    • F-Droid
     
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    Comments about Open Note Scanner as an Alternative to Microsoft Lens
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    Doesn't crash, easy install, easy to use, free, no ads.

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    • Open Note Scanner is Free and Open SourceMicrosoft Lens is Free and Proprietary
    • Open Note Scanner is LightweightMicrosoft Lens is not according to our users
  2. ABBYY TextGrabber easily and quickly digitizes fragments of printed text and turns the recognized result into action: call, email, follow links, find on maps, translate into 100+ languages, edit, voice over and share in any convenient way.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
     
  3. Text Grab icon
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    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
     
  4. Scannable captures the paper in your life quickly and beautifully, transforming it into high-quality scans ready to save or share. Whether on the go or at the office, send paper on its way and move...

    18 Evernote Scannable alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
  5. vFlat icon
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    vFlat scans your books quickly and beautifully, flattening the curved pages with the help of deep learning.

    51 vFlat alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
     
  6. Readiris icon
     9 likes

    PDF and OCR publishing software (optical character recognition) for MAC & WINDOWS. Do you dream of an intelligent PDF and OCR solution to intuitively manage your documents? You've found it.

    67 Readiris alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  7. Photo Scan icon
     1 like

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

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Windows Phone
     
  8. ClearScanner icon
     4 likes

    Scan documents easily using your mobile camera.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
     
  9. TextShot icon
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    TextShot is the ultimate tool for extracting text from images.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  10. Indoscan icon
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    Indoscan is the most powerful, Feature-rich and user-friendly document scanning application with PDF converter. It is free to use anytime and anywhere. Scan and Optimize your Single or multiple Documents with modes like Lighten, Magic color, Gray Mode, and B/W Color.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
     
  11. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
     
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