In this post we will see some Camscanner Alternative apps for Android. Camscanner is no doubt very useful documents scanner app for smartphones. But there are some limitations of this as free version only provide you 200 MB of cloud storage. Further there are too much of ads.

Some persons also now like the watermark “scanned by Camscanner”, however this can be removed by doing some stuff as explained in our previous post.

If you are searching some apps for Android those are equally capable to do scanning of documents and also allow you to store them on cloud with much sufficient space.

7 Camscanner Alternative apps for Android

1. Adobe Scan app

Adobe scan is Adobe’s scanning app having many good features and also proving cloud storage. You can scan documents, Whiteboard, business card using Adobe Scan. Multiple document scanning is also available. At the time of scanning document can be edited with features as rotation, color change, cropping etc.

Documents can be shared as PDF or JPG by multiple sharing options.

You can also OCR a scan document that can be edited later on. Adobe scan app provide the 5GB free Cloud storage that is much sufficient for online storage of documents.

2. Office Lens Scanning App

Office Lens app is provided by Microsoft. Office lens is a Camscanner Alternative app available free in Google Play Store. In Office lens you can scan a document, whiteboard, business card. Multi scan and single scan mode is available.

Using Office lens, you can OCR a document, can save as MS Word document format in OneDrive, files can be shared as Word or PDF file format. After scanning multiple editing portions are available like cropping, rotation, color, text input, color line highlight etc.

When scanning is complete you can save the file in PDF or JPG format in one drive, gallery. And can be shared after saving in OneDrive.

3. Google Drive App

Google Drive app also having feature to scan document. But this is not feature rich as like CamScanner, Office lens and Adobe scan. In google drive you are not having option to scan business card. However, some basic features are available like multiple document scanning, cropping, color mode etc.

After scanning document can be saved as PDF format to Google Drive directly. See our previous post on how to scan documents using Google Drive.

4. Scanbot Scanning App

Scanbot is a simple scanning app that having ability to scan single and multiple documents. There is no option as like business card and QR code scanner scanning. Cropping, page rotation, color options are available.

To edit brightness and contrast you have to buy pro version. Cloud service is also available in pro version. Scanbot is having features also to share files using various platform in PDF and JPG format.

5. Tiny Scanner App

Tiny scanner is light version of document scanning app.  This app is very simple and not having much ads. This app scanning quality is very good, it also recognizes automatically the page border so need not to crop the page to fit into the boundaries. Documents can be saved in app and phone memory also. You can change the document size in settings e.g. A4, A3, Legal.

6. Fast scanner App

Fast scanner is also a Camscanner alternative app that allow users to scan documents. Here in this app also many filters available B&W, Color, Gray you can also auto upload document after scanning to Google Drive, Drop Box and One drive after signing into these cloud storage.

These are the few Camscanner Alternative apps for Android, Office Lens, Google Drive and Adobe are our favorite apps as these are having Cloud Storage.

7.  Camera Scanner To Pdf

Camera Scanner to pdf is another Camscanner Alternative app. Using this app you can also scan documents and send them in PDF or JPG format. But for extra features like Ad free, Cloud backup, HD quality of scan, without watermark you have to purchase the premium version of app.

You can scan a single page or multiple pages in batch mode. QR Code scanning is also available. After scanning there are different editing options are available. You can change brightness and control, OCR recognition is also available to extract text from scan documents.

Conclusion

We have see above 7 Camscanner Alternative apps using them you can scan documents and also save them into cloud. Every app has some pro and cons. Google Drive and One Drive better Cloud storage options but not as feature rich as Camscanner. Adobe scanner has both the features cloud saving and features. Hope you will like these alternative apps.