NAPS2 is a document scanning application with a focus on simplicity and ease of use.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux




ABBYY FineReader PDF is not available for Linux but there are plenty of alternatives that runs on Linux with similar functionality. The best Linux alternative is NAPS2, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to ABBYY FineReader PDF and many of them are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to ABBYY FineReader PDF are Tesseract, GImageReader, Paperwork and OCRmyPDF.
NAPS2 is a document scanning application with a focus on simplicity and ease of use.




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