NAPS2 Alternatives for Linux

There are many alternatives to NAPS2 for Linux if you are looking for a replacement. The best Linux alternative is Simple Scan, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to NAPS2 and 11 are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to NAPS2 are VueScan, gscan2pdf, Skanlite and Skanpage.

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NAPS2 alternatives are mainly Image Scanners, but if you're looking for Document Scanners or Document Managers 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. Simple Scan icon

    Simple Scan

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    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.

    26 Simple Scan alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • GNOME
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    Comments about Simple Scan as an Alternative to NAPS2
    Guest
    Negative
    -3

    does not work with BenQ 5000

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Most users think Simple Scan is a great NAPS2 alternative.

    • Simple Scan is the most popular Linux alternative to NAPS2.

    • Simple Scan is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to NAPS2.

    • Simple Scan is Free and Open SourceNAPS2 is also Free and Open Source
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    VueScan

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    Scans documents, photos, and film on Windows, macOS, and Linux, with support for over 1200 scanners, PDF, JPEG, TIFF, and TXT output, advanced adjustments, batch processing, OCR, color correction, obsolete device support, and easy-to-use interface.

    30 VueScan alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
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    gscan2pdf

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    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...

    29 gscan2pdf alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
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    Comments about gscan2pdf as an Alternative to NAPS2
    D33pSh33p
    Positive
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    gscan2pdf is nicer to work with, seems to have more features. OCR in NAPS2 seem to be limited to only making PDFs searchable while gscan2pdf converted scans into text quite well.

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    • gscan2pdf is Free and Open SourceNAPS2 is also Free and Open Source
  5. Skanlite icon

    Skanlite

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    Skanlite is a simple image scanning application to scan and save images. Skanlite is based on libksane, an interface for SANE library to control image scanners.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • KDE Plasma
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
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  6. Skanpage icon

    Skanpage

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    Skanpage is a simple scanning application designed for multi-page scanning and saving of documents and images.

    22 Skanpage alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
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    XSane

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    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...

    20 XSane alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • AmigaOS
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  9. PaperScan icon

    PaperScan

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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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    Comments about PaperScan as an Alternative to NAPS2
    Guest
    Positive
    0

    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
  10. Opendias icon

    Opendias

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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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  11. EasyOCR icon

    EasyOCR

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    Ready-to-use OCR with 80+ supported languages and all popular writing scripts including Latin, Chinese, Arabic, Devanagari, Cyrillic and etc.

    17 EasyOCR alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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  12. CopyFish icon

    CopyFish

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    Copy, paste and translate text from any image, video or PDF.

    84 CopyFish alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Microsoft Edge
    • Google Chrome
    • Firefox
    Copy text from images, PDF and Youtube videos
     
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    Comments about CopyFish as an Alternative to NAPS2
    Jonathan Brickman
    Negative
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    NAPS2 does scanning. This one does not.

    Guest
    Negative
    2

    This program does not perform scans, just capture web images

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • This alternative is disputed. CopyFish is a legitimate NAPS2 alternative, but it might have issues that some users think are important.

    • CopyFish is Free and Open SourceNAPS2 is also Free and Open Source
  13. SwingSane icon

    SwingSane

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    SwingSane is a powerful, cross platform, open source Java client (frontend) for Scanner Access Now Easy (SANE) servers (backends). SwingSane provides access to scanners connected to SANE servers on a network on any platform that supports Java and Swing.

    18 SwingSane alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
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