NAPS2 is a document scanning application with a focus on simplicity and ease of use.
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
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Readiris is not available for Linux but there are some alternatives that runs on Linux with similar functionality. The best Linux alternative is NAPS2, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Readiris and seven of them are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to Readiris are GImageReader, dpScreenOCR, CopyFish and PaperScan.
NAPS2 is a document scanning application with a focus on simplicity and ease of use.




gImageReader is a simple Gtk/Qt front-end to the Tesseract OCR Engine.






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.



WatchOCR is an open source OCR server that creates searchable pdfs from images in a watched folder.

Inklight recognizes scans and PDFs on your own computer and writes a searchable PDF beside each original. Nothing is uploaded, and there is no account or processing server.



