Free VueScan Alternatives for Windows

There are many alternatives to VueScan for Windows if you are looking for a replacement. The best free Windows 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 13 are free and available for Windows so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free Windows alternatives to VueScan are XSane, iCopy Free Photocopier, SwingSane and Windows Scan.

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VueScan alternatives are mainly Document Scanners, but if you're looking for Image Scanners or PDF Editors you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Free, Open Source, Linux, Mac, Windows + Free, Mac + Free and Image Scanner. 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.
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  1. NAPS2 icon

    NAPS2

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    NAPS2 is a document scanning application with a focus on simplicity and ease of use.

    49 NAPS2 alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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    It doesn't emulate the driver twain of old scanners

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    As said before, my old Epson 10000 won’t work with Naps2. No problem with Vuescan.

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    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
    • NAPS2 is LightweightVueScan is not according to our users
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    XSane

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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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • AmigaOS
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  4. iCopy Free Photocopier icon

    iCopy Free Photocopier

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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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
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  5. SwingSane icon

    SwingSane

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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
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    does not emulate old scanner driver

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Most users think SwingSane is a great VueScan alternative.

    • SwingSane is Free and Open SourceVueScan is Paid and Proprietary
  7. ScanPapyrus icon

    ScanPapyrus

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    ScanPapyrus is a Windows desktop application for quick scanning of documents, books, or printed photos. Learn more about the features of ScanPapyrus.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  10. GpScanner icon

    GpScanner

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    This 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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
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  12. ScanDrop icon

    ScanDrop

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    Scanner to Online. ScanDrop (beta) is simple - one easy, free scanning software application that helps you scan and upload your paper into your favorite online storage provider: Google Docs, Evernote or OfficeDrop Online. Press Scan, then Upload and your paper is now available y.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
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  13. fiScanner icon

    fiScanner

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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  14. FreeKapture icon

    FreeKapture

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    FreeKapture give you the option to scan from your scanner, and then save the image: its a free Twain image capture application from TSoft that should work on any Windows (98 and on) Twain compliant system.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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