SwingSane AlternativesImage & Document Scanners like SwingSane

SwingSane is described as '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' and is a Image Scanner in the photos & graphics category. There are more than 10 alternatives to SwingSane for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Flathub, Mac and GNOME apps. The best SwingSane alternative is NAPS2, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like SwingSane are Simple Scan, VueScan, Skanlite and PDFill.

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

    49 NAPS2 alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
    • NAPS2 is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to SwingSane.

    • NAPS2 is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to SwingSane.

    • NAPS2 is Free and Open SourceSwingSane is also Free and Open Source
    • NAPS2 is LightweightSwingSane is not according to our users
  2. VueScan icon
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    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.

    30 VueScan alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
     
    • VueScan is the most popular commercial alternative to SwingSane.

    • VueScan is Paid and ProprietarySwingSane is Free and Open Source
  3. Skanlite icon
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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • KDE Plasma
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
     
  4. PDFill icon
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    With PDFill you can create, fill, delete and submit PDF form fields; insert new formatted text, check, image, hyperlink, whiteout, highlight, drawing, comment and annotation anywhere in the document; save, print or email the filled and password-protected PDF; save and resume...

    162 PDFill alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  5. Skanpage icon
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    Skanpage is a simple scanning application designed for multi-page scanning and saving of documents and images.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
     
  6. SilverFast icon
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    Digitally archive, scan, and optimize photos with tools for advanced correction, batch jobs, printer calibration, real-time previews, and QuickTime tutorials. Works as stand-alone or Photoshop plug-in and supports over 340 scanner models for professionals and beginners.

    11 SilverFast alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  7. XSane icon
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    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...

    20 XSane alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

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

    45 Scanitto Pro alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. Scan2pdf icon
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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  10. FreeKapture icon
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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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