NAPS2 Alternatives

NAPS2 is described as 'Document scanning application with a focus on simplicity and ease of use' and is a very popular document scanner in the photos & graphics category. There are more than 25 alternatives to NAPS2 for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Android and iPhone apps. The best NAPS2 alternative is ABBYY FineReader PDF. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Simple Scan or OpenScan. Other great apps like NAPS2 are VueScan, Open Scanner, PDFTK Builder and Genius Scan.

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NAPS2 alternatives are mainly Document Scanners, but if you're looking for Image Scanners or PDF Editors you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Android Tablet, Windows + Free, Mac, Free, Mac + Scan documents, Windows and Linux. You can also filter by region, for example EU-based alternatives if you prefer software developed in the European Union. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to NAPS2.
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  1. PaperScan icon
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    PaperScan Scanner Software is a powerful TWAIN and WIA scanning application with an OCR engine centered on one idea: making document acquisition an unparalleled easy task for anyone.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    Erasing names, signatures etc is something NAPS2 doesn't offer(yet)

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • PaperScan is Paid and ProprietaryNAPS2 is Free and Open Source
  2. Scan2pdf icon
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    Super simple scanning tool, that works with majority of scanners out of the box. This software does one thing - you can quickly and simply scan to PDF.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    AXPDF Scan to PDF Converter scan your paper documents into PDF format quickly, accurately and directly. In addition, you can import existing images and combine all the image files into a single PDF. Create PDF from scanned files and images is as easily as clicking buttons.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    ClarifyDocuments is a free AI tool that converts PDFs, images, and slides into clean, editable text. It automatically cleans, organizes, and processes content in any language, helping students and educators focus on learning.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  6. CloudScan icon
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    CloudScan. Free Scanning Software. (Scan to PDF and TIFF Everywhere Easily)

    CloudScan is a completely free scan application. It provides a new, simple way to scan your documents, pictures or photos and save them to mulitpage PDF files. Cloud can be successfully used on one compu.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Online
     
  7. fiScanner icon
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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    •With only one click you will be able to scan one page or even a whole pile of pages. •Optical Character Recognition •Integrated PDF Archive Multilingual: Languages (English, French, German, Italiano, Nederlands, Portuguese, Spanish, Russian).

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    Turn your iPhone into a jet Fast multi-page document scanner with JetScanner!

    Perfect companion for busy users, JetScanner automatically produces small, clear, and legible standard PDF documents from any photos at a very high speed.

    Are you on the go and urgently need to send.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • iPhone
     
  10. OwlOCR icon
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    OwlOCR offers simple optical character recognition of text in PDF files, images or on-screen and converts that to plain text.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once or Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  11. Opendias icon
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    The openDias project is an Open Source offering, to bring a professional document scanning and storage utility for the home user. OpenDias (Document Imaging Archive System) provides document storage and a document work-flow application to the home or small business user.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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