VueScan AlternativesOnly Free apps categorised as Image Scanners for Windows
There are many alternatives to VueScan for Windows if you are looking for a replacement. The best free Windows Image Scanner alternative is NAPS2, which is also Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to VueScan and four of them are free and Image Scanners available for Windows so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free Windows Image Scanner alternatives to VueScan are XSane, SwingSane and GpScanner.
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46 NAPS2 alternativesNAPS2 is a document scanning application with a focus on simplicity and ease of use.
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
Top NAPS2 Features
- Scan documents
- Scan to PDF
- OCR
- Multiple Profiles
- Split and merge PDF files
- Export to PDF
- Ad-free
- Works out of the box
- Portable
- Built-in viewer
- No registration required
- Lightweight
NAPS2 VS VueScan
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20 XSane alternativesXSane 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
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- AmigaOS
XSane Features
- Lightweight
- No registration required
- Scanner
DiscontinuedThe program is no longer updated. Last version, 0.998, released in November 2010, can be still downloaded from the official website.
XSane VS VueScan
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18 SwingSane alternativesSwingSane 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.
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
SwingSane Features
- Portable
- Scanner
DiscontinuedLast update is from 2015.
SwingSane VS VueScan
Is SwingSane a good alternative to VueScan?Comments about SwingSane as an Alternative to VueScan
does not emulate old scanner driver
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43 GpScanner alternativesThis document scanner application is developed for windows only. Compatible with both WIA and TWAIN. Users can Rotate, crop, rearrange scanned images and identify texts using OCR module
Top GpScanner Features
- No registration required
- Text to Speech
- PDF compression
- Full-Text Search
- Works Offline
- PDF annotation
- Built-in viewer
- No Tracking
- PDF encryption
- Sign PDF files
- Portable
- OCR
GpScanner VS VueScan
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Comments about NAPS2 as an Alternative to VueScan
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.
Bought a new Mac, after 11 years, an M2 Mac Studio running Ventura. Unfortunately, Brother couldn't be bothered to update the macOS scanner driver for their MFC-J6920DW A3 multifunctional to macOS 13. Unfortunately, NAPS2 doesn't work with it either. I guess it's because there is no SANE scanner driver for it. (Weirdly enough, Brother has their own app, Brother iPrint&Scan that still scans, but it is quite limited, has no ocr and poor image quality.)