If you were using CamScanner and you need a replacement that can do the same job or even better. Entrepreneur India brings you a list of five made-in-India application for your document, photo, and receipt scanning.
The ban on 59 Chinese apps by the government has left both app users and entrepreneurs in a tizzy. While the news did shock many, finally we are working on finding the best alternatives to the banned one. With apps like CamScanner, Tik Tok, and ShareIt having had more than 10 million users daily, there is a high demand for finding the best replacement.
Indian Entrepreneurs and Tech Geeks have stepped up to fill the void in the tech space and the moment could not have been better for schemes like "Make in India" and "Atma Nirbhar Bharat" to flourish. With CamScanner being a Chinese app that has the potential of being spyware with access to all user data, the Indian alternatives are created keeping users' safety, protection, and country's well-being in mind.
Bringing you a list of five Indian alternatives that will sort you scanning work seamlessly:
1. Kaagaz Scanner
Created by IIT graduates, Kaagaz Scanner was launched 10 days before the Chinese App Ban. With CamScanner getting banned, this one comes as a perfect replacement. At the moment only available in the Google Playstore, the app allows Android devices to be used as image scanners. Since the ban, the app has gained popularity among the consumer, getting a rating of over 4 stars and has already been downloaded over 5 lakhs times. Quite easy to use, the app lets you scan and share documents without having to create an account.
The
app has features like:
- Multiple
Page Scanning
- Sharing
PDF through email, social media or text,
- Enhanced
scan quality
- No
Watermark
- Free
of charge
- Scanning
modes- black and white, colour scan, and grayscale
2. Zoho Scanner
A
desi version of China's CamScanner is Zoho Doc Scanner. Launched by
Chennai-based software-as-a-service Zoho the app is available for free use for
a year in India. With a rating of 4.4, the app is downloaded more than 10,000
times and also has a premium service.
The
paid service includes features like:
- Digitally
sign up to 10 documents yourself
- Translate
extracted content from your scanned documents into 15 different languages including French, Spanish, German, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese, Italian
and more
- Automatically
backup your scanned docs in Google Drive
- It
also has a card scanner app
India's
answer to CamScanner, the chief minister of West Bengal, Mamata Banerjee
launched ‘SelfScan’. Developed by the state's information technology
department, the app is built to scan documents. The beta version of the app is
already available on Amazon App Store and the Samsung Galaxy Store and will
soon release on Google Play Store. Talking about the app she said, "I
would always want to use an app prepared in my country. It reflects patriotism.
What Bengal thinks today, the whole world thinks tomorrow."
The
app has features like:
- Auto
crop and auto edge detection
- Once
downloaded, no internet connection needed
- No
Registration
The
app-makers claim as the app use internet, it doesn’t send the users data to any
server. However, it does face problems while scanning handwritten documents but
they are working on fixing that problem. At the moment the app is available
only in the English language but the developers are working on making it
available in Bengali, Hindi, and other regional languages as well.
4. Bharat Scanner
Made
by the team of BITS Pilani, IIM Bangalore Alumni, Bharat Scanner is next on our
list that lets you scan the documents easily using your mobile phones.
Everything scanned by you is stored on the Indian Servers so that no data is
ever transferred out of India. The app also lets you add filters on the scanned
image, enhance its color, let you do a black and white scan.
The
app has features like:
- Lets
you add pages to documents
- Create,
share PDFs, and share through Mail or Whatsapp
5. DocScanner
Developed
by Easy Mob Apps, DocScanner has been in the market for quite a long time. The
app has seen a steady rise across the past few months and the Chinese App ban
gave it a nice push forward. It's a simple PDF document scanner app that lets
you scan documents, receipts, photos, reports, and more. The app already has
over 1 million+ downloads and 4.3 ratings on the Google PlayStore. However, the
only drawback is that the app contains ads and takes time to process documents.
The
app has features like:
- Page
edges are detected automatically.
- Set
page sizes for PDF (Letter, Legal, A4, and more)
- Share
PDF/JPEG files.
- Print
and fax the scanned doc directly from the app
To access,
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.doc.scanner
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