NAPS2 is a document scanning application with a focus on simplicity and ease of use.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux




The best open source alternative to Kofax Omnipage is NAPS2. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Kofax Omnipage and ten of them is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to Kofax Omnipage are Tesseract, CopyFish, GOCR and VietOCR.
NAPS2 is a document scanning application with a focus on simplicity and ease of use.




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