VueScan Alternatives
VueScan is described as *'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, TIFF and TXT files -Supports over 1200 scanners'* and is an app in the system & hardware category. There are more than 25 alternatives to VueScan for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Android and BSD. The best alternative is NAPS2, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like VueScan are Simple Scan, XSane, iCopy Free Photocopier and gscan2pdf.
NAPS2 is a document scanning application with a focus on simplicity and ease of use.
Discontinued
No release since 2019-07-27, see https://github.com/cyanfish/naps2/releases
NAPS2 vs VueScan opinions
It doesn't emulate the driver twain of old scanners
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.
- 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.
Simple Scan vs VueScan opinions
It doesn't emulate the driver of old scanners like vuescan for example.
XSane is a graphical scanning front-end for SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy). It uses the SANE-library to talk to scanners.
Discontinued
The program is no longer updated. Last version, 0.998, released in November 2010, can be still downloaded from the official website.
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!
- Free • Open Source
- Linux
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
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.
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.
SwingSane is a 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.
Discontinued
Last update is from 2015.
SwingSane vs VueScan opinions
does not emulate old scanner driver
This scanner software is lightweight, fast and not overloaded with tons of unnecessary features. Fine-tune your scanner settings, make one-click document copies and save documents to multi-page PDFs – its a choice you will never regret making!
Scanitto Pro vs VueScan opinions
It is easy-to-use and has every function I need