NAPS2 is a document scanning application with a focus on simplicity and ease of use.




SilverFast is described as 'Digitize and optimize images with automatic functions, advanced correction, printer calibration, real-time previews, and support for over 340 scanners' and is a Image Scanner in the photos & graphics category. There are more than 10 alternatives to SilverFast for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Flathub and GNOME apps. The best SilverFast alternative is NAPS2, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like SilverFast are Simple Scan, VueScan, Skanlite and XSane.
NAPS2 is a document scanning application with a focus on simplicity and ease of use.




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.


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.

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.

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...

Super simple scanning tool, that works with majority of scanners out of the box. This software does one thing - you can quickly and simply scan to PDF.



FreeKapture give you the option to scan from your scanner, and then save the image: its a free Twain image capture application from TSoft that should work on any Windows (98 and on) Twain compliant system.

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.




If you have a scanner, this app makes it easy to scan documents and pictures and save them where you'd like.

This document scanner application is developed for windows only. Compatible with both WIA and TWAIN. Users can Rotate, crop, rearrange scanned images and identify texts using OCR module

Profile Prism is software that allows monitor calibration and can generate ICC profiles for digital cameras, scanners, and printers using an IT8 reference target.
