Alternatives to SilverFast for all platforms with any license

NAPS2

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

Free Open Source Windows
Scan to PDF Support for Batch Mode Command Line support Convert images to PDF ... Multiple languages PDF OCR Portable Export to PDF Split and merge PDF files Add a feature

68 Like
Simple Scan

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. It's very...

Free Open Source Linux
Scan documents Add a feature

47 Like
VueScan

Third-party software for film scanners and flatbed scanners. VueScan is a powerful, easy-to-use program that: -Scans documents, photos and film -Creates PDF, JPEG...

Commercial Mac OS X Windows Linux iPhone iPad
Driver Emulation Multi Scan Photo color correction Photo scan ... Scan to PDF Add a feature

29 Like
TextGrabber

ABBYY TextGrabber easily and quickly scans, translates and saves your chosen text or QR-codes from virtually any printed material. Simply take a picture of the text...

Commercial $ $ $ Android iPhone
No features added Add a feature

12 Like
XSane

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...

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux AmigaOS
No features added Add a feature

15 Like
- Discontinued The program is no longer updated. Last version, 0.998, released in November 2010, can be still downloaded from the official website.
Skanlite

Skanlite is a simple image scanning application that does nothing more than scan and save images, based on the KSane backend. Skanlite can open a save dialog for every...

Free Open Source Linux
Scan documents Lightweight Add a feature

5 Like
WinScan2PDF

Save the scanned documents into PDF. WinScan2PDF is a very small (~40k) and portable program that allows you to scan documents and save them on your computer as a PDF...

Free Windows
Multiple languages Portable Scan to PDF Add a feature

3 Like
Prizmo

Prizmo 2 is a revolutionary scanning application with Optical Character Recognition (OCR) in over 40 languages with powerful editing capability, text-to-speech, and...

Commercial Mac OS X iPhone
Scan documents Add a feature

8 Like
Scan2pdf

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. Futures list: ...

Free Windows
Portable Scan to PDF Add a feature

8 Like
- Discontinued Development of KOMA Code apps stopped in January 2017. Last version of Scan2pdf can be still downloaded from the official website.
Scanitto Pro

Scanitto Pro is Windows-based software application for image scanning, direct printing and copying, basic editing and text recognition (OCR).

Commercial Windows
Multiple languages Scan to PDF Add a feature

13 Like
ZoomReader

In combination with your iOS device's built-in camera, ZoomReader lets you magnify and read printed text by first taking a picture of an object like a book or menu...

Free iPhone
No features added Add a feature

1 Like
FreeKapture

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...

Free Windows
No features added Add a feature

3 Like
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AXPDF Scan to PDF Converter

AXPDF Scan to PDF Converter scan your paper documents into PDF format quickly, accurately and directly. In addition, you can import existing images and combine all the...

Commercial Windows
Support for Batch Mode Create PDF files Scan documents Convert images to PDF ... Scan to PDF Add a feature

4 Like
Softi Scan to PDF

Scan to PDF software for Windows 7 Vista and XP. Most Twain devices supported from HP, Canon, Brother, Kodak ect.

Commercial Windows
Scan to PDF Add a feature

1 Like
- Discontinued Official website inaccessible but download still available at download sites.
Scan to PDF

Scan, Print, Fax, Download and Store Microsoft Office, PDF and Text Documents and images. This app turns your iPhone or iPad into a Handy Scanner, Fax, File Storage...

Commercial $ $ $ iPhone iPad
Built-in viewer Scan documents Scan to PDF Add a feature

2 Like