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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Adobe Scan

Posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Oct 14, 2023

What if you are looking to move away from Adobe and embark on a new world of online freedom, where you are not tracked, monetised and attached to Adobe’s ecosystem. We only recommend free and open source alternatives. Our recommended software don’t necessarily replicate every feature of their Adobe counterparts but they offer sufficient functionality for many tasks.

Adobe Scan provides a portable scanner that recognizes text automatically (OCR) and allows you to save to multiple files formats including PDF and JPEG.

Adobe Scan is proprietary software. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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