NAPS2 Alternatives for Mac

There are many alternatives to NAPS2 for Mac if you are looking for a replacement. The best Mac alternative is ABBYY FineReader PDF. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try XSane or OwlOCR. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to NAPS2 and 11 are available for Mac so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Mac alternatives to NAPS2 are VueScan, Readiris, SilverFast and ScanTexter.

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NAPS2 alternatives are mainly Image Scanners, but if you're looking for Document Scanners or OCR Engines 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. ABBYY FineReader PDF icon

    ABBYY FineReader PDF

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    Optical recognition software boasting unmatched text accuracy converts scanned documents to editable Word, Excel, or searchable PDFs while preserving layout. Supports 190 languages, simplifies processes with automated tasks, and includes PDF editing tools.

    88 ABBYY FineReader PDF alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • iPhone
    • iPad
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    flux
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    Alternativeto: Why has one to search on this flipping page for a link to ie. Abbyy-finereader? This is an utterly time-wasting stupid webpage-design-fault!!!! GET IT RIGHT. Else; no point in using ie. this website!

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    NAPS2 focuses on scanning and offers OCR functionality. ABBYY FineReader is a powerful OCR software that allows a scanner as source, along multiple others. So if you're looking for a better software to scan a bunch of documents, ABBYY isn't for you.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Most users think ABBYY FineReader PDF is a great NAPS2 alternative.

    • ABBYY FineReader PDF is the most popular Windows, Mac, iPhone & iPad alternative to NAPS2.

    • ABBYY FineReader PDF is the most popular commercial alternative to NAPS2.

    • ABBYY FineReader PDF is Paid and ProprietaryNAPS2 is 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

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
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    Readiris

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    PDF and OCR publishing software (optical character recognition) for MAC & WINDOWS. Do you dream of an intelligent PDF and OCR solution to intuitively manage your documents? You've found it.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
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    ABBYY FineReader PDF

    Optical recognition software boasting unmatched text accuracy converts scanned documents to editable Word, Excel, or searchable PDFs while preserving layout. Supports 190 languages, simplifies processes with automated tasks, and ...

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    SilverFast

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    Digitally archive, scan, and optimize photos with tools for advanced correction, batch jobs, printer calibration, real-time previews, and QuickTime tutorials. Works as stand-alone or Photoshop plug-in and supports over 340 scanner models for professionals and beginners.

    11 SilverFast alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
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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

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • AmigaOS
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  8. OwlOCR icon

    OwlOCR

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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

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    Platforms

    • Mac
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  10. ScanTexter icon

    ScanTexter

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    Scan all the text on screen and translate them all at once.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  11. Easy Screen OCR icon

    Easy Screen OCR

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    You can use Easy Screen OCR to capture a snapshot and start OCR process. this program will detect the text from the image and start OCR process immediately. You can extract the text to copy and paste in seconds.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once or Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Android
    • iPhone
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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

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Microsoft Edge
    • Google Chrome
    • Firefox
    Copy text from images, PDF and Youtube videos
     
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    Jonathan Brickman
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    NAPS2 does scanning. This one does not.

    Guest
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    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
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    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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  14. ScanDrop icon

    ScanDrop

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    Scanner to Online. ScanDrop (beta) is simple - one easy, free scanning software application that helps you scan and upload your paper into your favorite online storage provider: Google Docs, Evernote or OfficeDrop Online. Press Scan, then Upload and your paper is now available y.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
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