VueScan Alternatives

VueScan is described as 'Third-party software for film scanners and flatbed scanners' 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, Android and iPhone apps. The best VueScan alternative is NAPS2, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like VueScan are Simple Scan, iCopy Free Photocopier, XSane and gscan2pdf.

VueScan alternatives are mainly Document Scanners but may also be Image Scanners or iPhone File Managers. Filter by these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of VueScan.

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VueScan

Paid • Proprietary
Image Scanner

Third-party software for film scanners and flatbed scanners.

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NAPS2
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Free • Open Source
Document Scanner
Image Scanner
Mac
Windows
Linux
44 NAPS2 alternatives
NAPS2 is a document scanning application with a focus on simplicity and ease of use.
- - NAPS2 is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to VueScan.
- - NAPS2 is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to VueScan.
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NAPS2 Features
1. OCRExtract the text from a screen capture or file and paste it into another document for edits.
2. Ad-freeNAPS2 doesn't contain any form of external advertising.
3. PortableNAPS2 can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
4. Works OfflineNAPS2 can be used without the need to connect to the internet.
5. LightweightNAPS2 consumes less device resources compared to similar apps.
6. Command line interfaceNAPS2 either have CLI support or is a CLI-only app.
7. Built-in viewerNAPS2 shows you a quick preview of an image, page or file in supported formats.
Scan to PDF
Multiple Profiles
Split and merge PDF files
Export to PDF
PDF Page Merge
Works out of the box
Support for Batch Mode
PDF OCR
Multiple languages
Reorder pages
Comments about NAPS2 as a Alternative to VueScan
Most users think NAPS2 is a great VueScan alternative.
Guest
It doesn't emulate the driver twain of old scanners
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Guest
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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Simple Scan
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Free • Open Source
Document Scanner
Image Scanner
Linux
Flathub
25 Simple Scan alternatives
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.
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Simple Scan Features
Scanner
Photo scan
Export to PDF
Scan to JPEG
Document Capture
Comments about Simple Scan as a Alternative to VueScan
Most users think Simple Scan is a great VueScan alternative.
Guest
It doesn't emulate the driver of old scanners like vuescan for example.
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iCopy Free Photocopier
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Free • Open Source
Document Scanner
Windows
8 iCopy Free Photocopier alternatives
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!
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iCopy Free Photocopier Features
1. PortableiCopy Free Photocopier can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
2. Works OfflineiCopy Free Photocopier can be used without the need to connect to the internet.
3. Ad-freeiCopy Free Photocopier doesn't contain any form of external advertising.
Scanner
Scan to PDF
Opinions about iCopy Free Photocopier as a Alternative to VueScan
Most users think iCopy Free Photocopier is a great VueScan alternative.
XSane
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Free • Open Source
Image Scanner
Mac
Windows
Linux
AmigaOS
20 XSane alternatives
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...
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XSane Features
Scanner
Discontinued
The program is no longer updated. Last version, 0.998, released in November 2010, can be still downloaded from the official website.

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Most users think XSane is a great VueScan alternative.
gscan2pdf
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Free • Open Source
Linux
26 gscan2pdf alternatives
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 gocr-OCR-engines
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gscan2pdf Features
1. OCRExtract the text from a screen capture or file and paste it into another document for edits.
PDF OCR
Scan to PDF
Export to PDF
Screenshot OCR
Split and merge PDF files
Comments about gscan2pdf as a Alternative to VueScan
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Golfy038
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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fiScanner
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Free • Open Source
Windows
5 fiScanner alternatives
fiScanner is a relatively simple application which should provide for better ease-of-use and functionality when scanning documents in Windows Vista or Windows 7, over the default utility, Windows Fax and Scan.
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Skanpage
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Free • Open Source
Document Scanner
Linux
21 Skanpage alternatives
Skanpage is a simple scanning application designed for multi-page scanning and saving of documents and images.
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Skanpage Features
Scanner
KDE
Scan to PDF
Comments about Skanpage as a Alternative to VueScan
pros, cons and recent comments
Golfy038
simple but efficient. No OCR.
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Image Capture
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Free • Proprietary
iPhone File Manager
Mac
iPhone
6 Image Capture alternatives
Image Capture enables users to upload pictures from digital cameras or scanners which are either connected directly to the computer or the network.
- - Image Capture is the most popular iPhone alternative to VueScan.
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Image Capture Features
Scan to PDF
SilverFast
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Paid • Proprietary
Image Scanner
Mac
Windows
11 SilverFast alternatives
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.
- - SilverFast is the most popular commercial alternative to VueScan.
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SilverFast Features
Scanner
Color management
Color correction
Image Processing
Comments about SilverFast as a Alternative to VueScan
Some users think SilverFast is a great VueScan alternative, some don't.
Archipel3
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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Skanlite
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Free • Open Source
Document Scanner
Image Scanner
Linux
22 Skanlite alternatives
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.
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Skanlite Features
1. LightweightSkanlite consumes less device resources compared to similar apps.
Scanner
KDE
GNU/linux-libre