OSS Document Scanner Alternatives

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

Screen Capture Software for Windows and Mac

Auto arrange all your app windows, whether on one screen or many with a single click!

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FOSS Document Scanner

A simple and lightweight translator that allows to translate and speak text using Google, Yandex and Bing.

Open Source

Tesseract is an optical character recognition engine for various operating systems

NormCap is one of the smart programs that allows optical character recognition, enabling you to mark anything on the desktop to retrieve the text part of it and get it copied to the Windows clipboard.

Greenshot is a free and open source screenshot tool that allows annotation and highlighting using the built-in image editor.

Open Source

Capture2Text enables users to quickly OCR a portion of the screen using a keyboard shortcut.

Microsoft Lens (formerly known as Office Lens) is an all-in-one application designed for Windows, Android, and Apple devices, allowing you to capture important information from signs, PDFs, whiteboards, and more to add.

Make your job easier with Adobe Acrobat DC, the trusted PDF creator. Use Acrobat to convert, edit and sign PDF files at your desk or on the go.

Scan anything into a PDF using your mobile device.

Program to recognize text on screen

Open Source

ABBYY's latest PDF editor software, FineReader 16 you can easily convert files like PDF to Excel, PDF to Word, edit, share, collaborate & more with this PDF editor!

freemium $16.0 / Monthly (FineReader PDF Standard for Windows)