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Simple Scan

Simple Scan is an easy-to-use application, designed to let users connect their scanner and quickly... Created by Robert Ancell

Free Open Source
Linux

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 simple, there are no advanced features, but it works well for everyday scans. It can save in PDF, JPG or PNG format.

Simple Scan is basically a frontend for SANE - which is the same backend as XSANE uses. This means that all existing scanners will work and the interface is well tested. More Info »

It comes preinstalled in Ubuntu 10.04 or later, but package can be download also for Ubuntu 9.10.

Simple Scan is listed in

Linux • Accessories

Link to official Simple Scan site

Official Website

Features

Document Capture Scan documents Photo scan Export to PDF Scan to JPEG Scanner Add a feature

Categories

OS & Utilities System & Hardware

Tags

hardware-scanners image-acquisition image-scanning scan-image scanners scanning scanning-software

Simple Scan was added by jaub in Nov 2010 and the latest update was made in Apr 2020. The list of alternatives was updated Mar 2020. It's possible to update the information on Simple Scan or report it as discontinued, duplicated or spam.

Simple Scan main window

Example multipage scan

Preferences window (italian language)

MORE APP INFO Official website

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