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.
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Simple Scan vs NAPS2 Comments
- Simple Scan is Free and Open Source
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 50 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 Windows + Free, Mac, Free, Mac + Scan documents, Windows, Android Tablet 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.
Alternatives list
26 Simple Scan alternatives
30 VueScan alternativesScans 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 gscan2pdf alternativesgscan2pdf 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...
gscan2pdf vs NAPS2 Comments
D33pSh33pgscan2pdf 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.
- gscan2pdf is Free and Open Source
22 Skanlite alternativesSkanlite 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.
Skanpage is a simple scanning application designed for multi-page scanning and saving of documents and images.
20 XSane alternativesXSane 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...
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- AmigaOS
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
- Paid
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Windows
- Linux
PaperScan vs NAPS2 Comments
Erasing names, signatures etc is something NAPS2 doesn't offer(yet)
- PaperScan is Paid and Proprietary
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.
Ready-to-use OCR with 80+ supported languages and all popular writing scripts including Latin, Chinese, Arabic, Devanagari, Cyrillic and etc.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-2.0)
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Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Microsoft Edge
- Google Chrome
- Firefox
CopyFish vs NAPS2 Comments
Jonathan BrickmanNAPS2 does scanning. This one does not.
This program does not perform scans, just capture web images
- CopyFish is Free and Open Source
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.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
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