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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VueScan alternatives are mainly Document Scanners, but if you're looking for Image Scanners or iPhone File Managers you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Windows + Free and Mac + Free. You can also filter by region, for example EU-based alternatives if you prefer software developed in the European Union. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to VueScan.- Image Scanner
- Paid • Proprietary
- 48 NAPS2 alternatives
NAPS2 is a document scanning application with a focus on simplicity and ease of use.
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
Country of Origin
United States
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
Comments about NAPS2 as an Alternative to VueScan
Most Recent Commentlian00As said before, my old Epson 10000 won’t work with Naps2. No problem with Vuescan.
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.
- 26 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.
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
Country of Origin
Australia
Platforms
- Linux
- Flathub
- GNOME
Simple Scan Features
Comments about Simple Scan as an Alternative to VueScan
It doesn't emulate the driver of old scanners like vuescan for example.
- 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...
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application type
Country of Origin
Germany
EU
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- AmigaOS
DiscontinuedThe program is no longer updated. Last version, 0.998, released in November 2010, can be still downloaded from the official website.
- 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.
License model
- Paid • Proprietary
Application type
Country of Origin
Germany
EU
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
SilverFast Features
Comments about SilverFast as an Alternative to VueScan
Archipel3Siverfast has a comprehensive set of features. For negative and slide scanning it has tailored imaging profiles for different brands and types of film.
- 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!
iCopy Free Photocopier Features
- 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.
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
Country of Origin
Germany
EU
Platforms
- Linux
- KDE Plasma
- Flathub
- Flatpak
Skanpage is a simple scanning application designed for multi-page scanning and saving of documents and images.
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application type
Country of Origin
Germany
EU
Platforms
- Linux
- Flathub
Skanpage Features
Comments about Skanpage as an Alternative to VueScan
Golfy038simple but efficient. No OCR.
- 44 Scanitto Pro alternatives
Scanitto Pro is Windows-based software application for image scanning, direct printing and copying, basic editing and text recognition (OCR).
License model
- Paid • Proprietary
Application type
Country of Origin
Russia
Platforms
- Windows
DiscontinuedThe last update was at 12/13/2017.https://www.scanitto.com/download.html
Scanitto Pro Features
Comments about Scanitto Pro as an Alternative to VueScan
It is easy-to-use and has every function I need
- 29 PaperScan alternatives
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.
License model
- Paid • Proprietary
Platforms
- Windows
- Linux
PaperScan Features
- 28 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...
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application type
Country of Origin
United Kingdom
Platforms
- Linux
gscan2pdf Features
Comments about gscan2pdf as an Alternative to VueScan
Golfy038gscan2pdf is free and gratis, interface isn't ugly and it's possible to sort scan pages before exporting to PDF.
It doesn't emulate the driver twain of old scanners