Free Offline Document Scanner for Windows
Hbot is a 100% free, 100% offline desktop app for scanning, enhancing, and managing documents. Like CamScanner, but nothing ever leaves your computer.
100% free. 100% offline. Nothing leaves your computer.
Features
Scan & Capture
- Smart Crop — auto-detects edges and flattens perspective
- Webcam auto-capture — holds steady, snaps, re-arms when you turn the page
- Book mode — splits two-page spreads at the gutter
Enhance & Edit
- Magic Color, Remove Shadows, Black & White, Grayscale, Denoise
- Brightness, contrast, rotate, drag-to-adjust corners
- Pen, marker, highlighter; blur region; tiled watermark; signature
Find & Manage
- Find in Page with offline Tesseract OCR
- Print, rename, export PNG / JPEG / BMP / TIFF
- Merge, split, rearrange, delete PDF pages; AES-256 password protection
Setup (Windows)
Install Python 3.10+ from python.org and tick “Add to PATH”.
Optional: for Find in Page, install Tesseract OCR from UB-Mannheim. Hbot auto-detects the default path at C:\Program Files\Tesseract-OCR.
pip install -r requirements.txt
python -m hbot.app
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