SilverFast Alternatives
SilverFast is described as 'is renowned as the worldwide standard when it comes to scanner and digital imaging software. SilverFast is able to bring out every device's maximum quality and considerably exceed the results of the manufacturer's own software'. There are more than 25 alternatives to SilverFast for a variety of platforms, including Windows, iPhone, Linux, Mac and iPad. The best alternative is NAPS2, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like SilverFast are Simple Scan (Free, Open Source), VueScan (Paid), Skanlite (Free, Open Source) and TextGrabber (Paid).
- NAPS2 is a document scanning application with a focus on simplicity and ease of use. View 39 alternatives to NAPS2
- 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. View 24 alternatives to Simple Scan
- Third-party software for film scanners and flatbed scanners. View 25 alternatives to VueScan
- Paid • Proprietary
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- iPhone
- iPad
- 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. View 21 alternatives to Skanlite
- ABBYY TextGrabber easily and quickly scans, translates and saves your chosen text or QR-codes from virtually any printed material. View 52 alternatives to TextGrabber
- XSane is a graphical scanning front-end for SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy). It uses the SANE-library to talk to scanners. View 19 alternatives to XSane
Discontinued
The program is no longer updated. Last version, 0.998, released in November 2010, can be still downloaded from the official website.
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- AmigaOS
- Scan, Print, Fax, Download and Store Microsoft Office, PDF and Text Documents and images. View 83 alternatives to Scan to PDF
- PDF creation with text recognition and scanner support. Features email and webpage import to PDF. View 141 alternatives to PDFify
- 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. View 29 alternatives to Scan2pdf
Discontinued
Development of KOMA Code apps stopped in January 2017. Last version of Scan2pdf can be still downloaded from the official website.
- Free • Proprietary
- Windows
- Prizmo 3 is a scanning application with Optical Character Recognition (OCR) in 25 languages with powerful editing capabilities, text-to-speech, iCloud support, and translation... View 51 alternatives to Prizmo