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Self-hostable, privacy-first PDF toolkit that runs fully in the browser for editing, merging, converting, and processing PDFs without server-side uploads.
15.1k stars1.3k forksAGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained
3 self-hosted CamScanner alternatives
Mobile app and cloud service for capturing paper documents, enhancing images, performing OCR, converting to searchable PDFs/images, adding signatures, and organizing and sharing scanned files.
Alternatives to CamScanner
Self-hosted web UI for file conversion, OCR for PDFs/images, and local Whisper-based audio transcription, wrapping common CLI tools with background jobs and history.
1.1k stars71 forksMITlast commit Slowing down
SANE provides a portable API, a collection of scanner backends and frontends, and network scanning support (saned/scanimage) for Unix-like systems.
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What replacing CamScanner actually involves
Every option on this page is open source and free to run on your own hardware, so you own the data and there is no subscription to cancel. 1 of 3 shipped a commit in the last six months. Licences in this list: AGPL-3.0, MIT. In exchange you take on hosting, backups and updates yourself.
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