The Best VueScan AlternativesTop Image Scanners and other similar apps like VueScan

VueScan is described as 'Scans documents, photos, and film on Windows, macOS, and Linux, supports over 1200 scanners, creates PDF, JPEG, TIFF, TXT files, and includes OCR' and is a Image Scanner in the system & hardware category. There are more than 25 alternatives to VueScan for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Flathub and Android apps. The best VueScan alternative is NAPS2, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like VueScan are Simple Scan, XSane, SilverFast and iCopy Free Photocopier.

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Scans documents, photos, and film on Windows, macOS, and Linux, supports over 1200 scanners, creates PDF, JPEG, TIFF, TXT files, and includes OCR.

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VueScan alternatives page was last updated May 28, 2025
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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.

    48 NAPS2 alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Scan documents
    2.  Scan to PDF
    3.  OCR
    4.  Multiple Profiles
    5.  Split and merge PDF files
    6.  Export to PDF
    7.  Ad-free
    8.  Works out of the box
    9.  PDF Page Merge
    10.  Portable
    11.  Built-in viewer
    12.  No registration required

    NAPS2 VS VueScan

     
    Comments about NAPS2 as an Alternative to VueScan
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    Guest
    Negative Jan 5, 2016
    9

    It doesn't emulate the driver twain of old scanners

    lian00
    Positive Oct 15, 2024
    0

    As said before, my old Epson 10000 won’t work with Naps2. No problem with Vuescan.

    Guest
    Positive Jul 9, 2017
    3

    Works flawless under Win 10, recognized the flatbed-scanner in one click. Now I can edit the scan before storing it. Brightness, contrast, size or a crop. A huge improvement over the deeply hidden default WIA scanner in W10. And all this luxury in a portable tool that’s just 5.3Mb. It recognized my default language without asking. Great stuff.

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    • Most users think NAPS2 is a great VueScan alternative.

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

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

    • NAPS2 is Free and Open SourceVueScan is Paid and Proprietary
  2. Simple Scan icon
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    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.

    26 Simple Scan alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Country of Origin

    • AU flagAustralia

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • GNOME

    Simple Scan Features

    1.  Scanner
    2.  Photo scan
    3.  Export to PDF
    4.  Scan to JPEG
    5.  Document Capture

    Simple Scan VS VueScan

     
    Comments about Simple Scan as an Alternative to VueScan
    Guest
    Negative Dec 27, 2019
    3

    It doesn't emulate the driver of old scanners like vuescan for example.

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    • Most users think Simple Scan is a great VueScan alternative.

    • Simple Scan is Free and Open SourceVueScan is Paid and Proprietary
  3. 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

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • DE flagGermany
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • AmigaOS
    Discontinued

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

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  No registration required
    2.  Scanner

    XSane VS VueScan

     
  4. SilverFast icon
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    SilverFast 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.

    11 SilverFast alternatives

    License model

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • DE flagGermany
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows

    SilverFast Features

    1.  Scanner
    2.  Color management
    3.  Color correction
    4.  Image Processing

    SilverFast VS VueScan

     
    Comments about SilverFast as an Alternative to VueScan
    Archipel3
    Positive Apr 9, 2022
    0

    Siverfast has a comprehensive set of features. For negative and slide scanning it has tailored imaging profiles for different brands and types of film.

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    • Some users think SilverFast is a great VueScan alternative, some don't.

    • SilverFast is the most popular commercial alternative to VueScan.

    • SilverFast is Paid and ProprietaryVueScan is also Paid and Proprietary
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    iCopy Free Photocopier is a free and open source application that lets you combine your scanner and printer into a powerful, easy to use photocopier by only pressing a button. You can use Automatic Document Feeders (ADF) too!

    8 iCopy Free Photocopier alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows

    iCopy Free Photocopier Features

    1.  Portable
    2.  Works Offline
    3.  Ad-free
    4.  Scanner
    5.  Scan to PDF

    iCopy Free Photocopier VS VueScan

     
  6. 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.

    22 Skanlite alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Country of Origin

    • DE flagGermany
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • KDE Plasma
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Scanner
    2.  KDE
    3.  GNU/linux-libre

    Skanlite VS VueScan

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

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • DE flagGermany
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub

    Skanpage Features

    1.  Scanner
    2.  KDE
    3.  Scan to PDF

    Skanpage VS VueScan

     
    Comments about Skanpage as an Alternative to VueScan
    Golfy038
    Positive Oct 25, 2022
    0

    simple but efficient. No OCR.

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    • Skanpage is Free and Open SourceVueScan is Paid and Proprietary
  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).

    44 Scanitto Pro alternatives

    License model

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • RU flagRussia

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Discontinued

    The last update was at 12/13/2017.https://www.scanitto.com/download.html

    Scanitto Pro Features

    1.  OCR
    2.  Scanner
    3.  Multiple languages
    4.  Scan to PDF

    Scanitto Pro VS VueScan

     
    Comments about Scanitto Pro as an Alternative to VueScan
    Guest
    Positive Dec 23, 2016
    1

    It is easy-to-use and has every function I need

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    • Most users think Scanitto Pro is a great VueScan alternative.

    • Scanitto Pro is Paid and ProprietaryVueScan is also Paid and Proprietary
  9. PaperScan icon
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    PaperScan Scanner Software is a powerful TWAIN and WIA scanning application with an OCR engine centered on one idea: making document acquisition an unparalleled easy task for anyone.

    29 PaperScan alternatives

    License model

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux

    PaperScan Features

    1.  OCR
    2.  Scanner

    PaperScan VS VueScan

     
  10. gscan2pdf icon
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    gscan2pdf can scan, clean the scan and do OCR on the scan or imported images (incl. existing PDFs, DjVus or other file types), and make PDF and DjVu-files with embedded OCR-text. It works together with tesseract, ocropus, cuneiform an...

    28 gscan2pdf alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • GB flagUnited Kingdom

    Platforms

    • Linux

    gscan2pdf Features

    1.  PDF OCR
    2.  Scan to PDF
    3.  Export to PDF
    4.  OCR
    5.  Screenshot OCR
    6.  Split and merge PDF files

    gscan2pdf VS VueScan

     
    Comments about gscan2pdf as an Alternative to VueScan
    Golfy038
    Positive Oct 25, 2022
    0

    gscan2pdf is free and gratis, interface isn't ugly and it's possible to sort scan pages before exporting to PDF.

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    • gscan2pdf is Free and Open SourceVueScan is Paid and Proprietary
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