Free NAPS2 AlternativesTop Document & Image Scanners like NAPS2

The best free alternative to NAPS2 is OpenScan, which is also Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to NAPS2 and many of them is free so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free alternatives to NAPS2 are PDFTK Builder, Simple Scan, iCopy Free Photocopier and CopyFish.

NAPS2 alternatives are mainly Document Scanners but may also be Image Scanners or Document Managers. Filter by these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of NAPS2.

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Free • Open Source
Document Scanner

NAPS2 is a document scanning application with a focus on simplicity and ease of use.

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OpenScan
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Free • Open Source
Document Scanner
Image Scanner
Android
102 OpenScan alternatives
OpenScan is an open source app that enables users to scan hardcopies of documents or notes and convert it to PDF or JPEG files. Its motto is "No ads. No data collection. We respect your privacy.".
- - OpenScan is the most popular Android alternative to NAPS2.
- - OpenScan is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to NAPS2.
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OpenScan Features
1. Privacy focusedOpenScan is considered a privacy friendly alternative.
2. Ad-freeOpenScan doesn't contain any form of external advertising.
3. Sign PDF filesOpenScan support signing a PDF document digitally on a touch screen etc.
4. Built-in viewerOpenScan shows you a quick preview of an image, page or file in supported formats.
5. Works OfflineOpenScan can be used without the need to connect to the internet.
6. Fill PDF FormsOpenScan supports forms in PDF files.
7. Mobile ScannerOpenScan can use your mobile camera to quickly scan documents and photos.
8. No registration requiredYou can use most of the features in OpenScan without registration.
Photo scan
Scanner
Discontinued
Not under active development.https://github.com/ethereal-developers/OpenScan#psa

Comments about OpenScan as a Alternative to NAPS2
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flux
Alternativeto: Why the flip are you 'hiding' the flipping link to ie. app until one mouses-over the name of ie. app? Worse; not a direct link; but have to copy & paste link!! What the flip is going on with your site?@??? I give up! GET IT SORTED! I'll check-back perhaps in a year!
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PDFTK Builder
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Free • Open Source
PDF Editor
Windows
PortableApps.com
79 PDFTK Builder alternatives
PDFTK Builder is a free graphical interface to for PDFtk, making it much easier to use. It is a easy to use tool to collate (merge), split, encrypt, decrypt, stamp and rotate (only 90°, 180° or 270°) pdf documents.
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PDFTK Builder Features
1. LightweightPDFTK Builder consumes less device resources compared to similar apps.
2. Combine PDFCombine, merge and arrange PDF files into one document.
3. PortablePDFTK Builder can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
Split and merge PDF files
Password protection
Reorder pages
Create PDF files
Simple Scan
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Free • Open Source
Document Scanner
Image Scanner
Linux
Flathub
25 Simple Scan alternatives
Simple Scan is an easy-to-use application, designed to let users connect their scanner and quickly have the image/document in an appropriate format.
- - Simple Scan is the most popular Linux alternative to NAPS2.
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Simple Scan Features
Scanner
Photo scan
Export to PDF
Scan to JPEG
Document Capture
Comments about Simple Scan as a Alternative to NAPS2
Most users think Simple Scan is a great NAPS2 alternative.
Guest
does not work with BenQ 5000
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iCopy Free Photocopier
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Free • Open Source
Document Scanner
Windows
8 iCopy Free Photocopier alternatives
iCopy Free Photocopier is a free and open source application that lets you combine your scanner and printer into a powerful, easy to use photocopier by only pressing a button. You can use Automatic Document Feeders (ADF) too!
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iCopy Free Photocopier Features
1. PortableiCopy Free Photocopier can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
2. Works OfflineiCopy Free Photocopier can be used without the need to connect to the internet.
3. Ad-freeiCopy Free Photocopier doesn't contain any form of external advertising.
Scanner
Scan to PDF
CopyFish
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Free • Open Source
Document Scanner
Mac
Windows
Linux
Microsoft Edge
Google Chrome
Firefox
71 CopyFish alternatives
Copy, paste and translate text from any image, video or PDF.
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CopyFish Features
1. OCRExtract the text from a screen capture or file and paste it into another document for edits.
2. No registration requiredYou can use most of the features in CopyFish without registration.
PDF OCR
Screenshot OCR
Scanner
Scan to word
Text Translation
Scan to PDF
Process scanning
Image to text
Comments about CopyFish as a Alternative to NAPS2
This alternative is disputed. CopyFish is still a legitimate NAPS2 alternative, but it might have issues that some users think are important.
Jonathan Brickman
NAPS2 does scanning. This one does not.
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Guest
This program does not perform scans, just capture web images
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Genius Scan
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Freemium • Proprietary
Document Scanner
Android
iPhone
55 Genius Scan alternatives
Genius Scan is a scanner in your pocket. Quickly scan your documents on the go and export them as JPEG or multi-page PDF files.
- - Genius Scan is the most popular iPhone alternative to NAPS2.
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Genius Scan Features
1. OCRExtract the text from a screen capture or file and paste it into another document for edits.
2. Mobile ScannerGenius Scan can use your mobile camera to quickly scan documents and photos.
Convert images to PDF
Scan to PDF
Document Merging
No Watermark
Support for Batch Mode
Data export/import
Evernote integration
WebDAV Support
PDF documentation generation
Password encryption
OwlOCR
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Freemium • Proprietary
Mac
87 OwlOCR alternatives
OwlOCR offers simple optical character recognition of text in PDF files, images or on-screen and converts that to plain text. All conversion is done securely on-device - none of your images or files are sent to third-party services in the cloud as most applications do.
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OwlOCR Features
1. OCRExtract the text from a screen capture or file and paste it into another document for edits.
gscan2pdf
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Free • Open Source
Linux
26 gscan2pdf alternatives
gscan2pdf can scan, clean the scan and do OCR on the scan or imported images (incl. existing PDFs, DjVus or other file types), and make PDF and DjVu-files with embedded OCR-text. It works together with tesseract, ocropus, cuneiform an gocr-OCR-engines
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gscan2pdf Features
1. OCRExtract the text from a screen capture or file and paste it into another document for edits.
PDF OCR
Scan to PDF
Export to PDF
Screenshot OCR
Split and merge PDF files
XSane
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Free • Open Source
Image Scanner
Mac
Windows
Linux
AmigaOS
20 XSane alternatives
XSane is a graphical scanning front-end for SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy). It uses the SANE-library to talk to scanners. It is designed for acquiring images with scanners (there are other devices like cameras and videodevices supported by SANE and you will see that xsane may...
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XSane Features
1. LightweightXSane consumes less device resources compared to similar apps.
2. No registration requiredYou can use most of the features in XSane without registration.
Scanner
Discontinued
The program is no longer updated. Last version, 0.998, released in November 2010, can be still downloaded from the official website.
fiScanner
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Free • Open Source
Windows
5 fiScanner alternatives
fiScanner is a relatively simple application which should provide for better ease-of-use and functionality when scanning documents in Windows Vista or Windows 7, over the default utility, Windows Fax and Scan.
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PDF Doc Scan
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Free • Open Source
Document Scanner
Image Scanner
Android
F-Droid
62 PDF Doc Scan alternatives
Main point of this app is to scan or select existing PDF documents simply using intent or chooser. Other apps require payment to access their api/sdk or simply don't have a possible way to do it. So they rely on switching between an app ,file chooser and a scanner.
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PDF Doc Scan Features
1. Ad-freePDF Doc Scan doesn't contain any form of external advertising.
2. Mobile ScannerPDF Doc Scan can use your mobile camera to quickly scan documents and photos.
3. Built-in viewerPDF Doc Scan shows you a quick preview of an image, page or file in supported formats.
Scanner
Vovsoft OCR Reader
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Freemium • Proprietary
Document Scanner
Windows
54 Vovsoft OCR Reader alternatives
OCR Reader is an image to text converter program that allows you to extract text from PNG, JPEG, TIFF, WEBP, and BMP image files using Optical Character Recognition.
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Vovsoft OCR Reader Features
1. OCRExtract the text from a screen capture or file and paste it into another document for edits.
2. PortableVovsoft OCR Reader can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
3. Built-in viewerVovsoft OCR Reader shows you a quick preview of an image, page or file in supported formats.
Image to text