The Best Open Source VueScan AlternativesTop Image Scanners and other similar apps like VueScan

The best open source alternative to VueScan is NAPS2. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to VueScan and 13 is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to VueScan are Simple Scan, XSane, iCopy Free Photocopier and Skanlite.

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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

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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    Comments about NAPS2 as an Alternative to VueScan
    Guest
    Negative
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    It doesn't emulate the driver twain of old scanners

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    lian00
    Positive
    0

    As said before, my old Epson 10000 won’t work with Naps2. No problem with Vuescan.

    Guest
    Positive
    3

    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
  2. Simple Scan icon

    Simple Scan

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    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.

    26 Simple Scan alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • GNOME
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    Comments about Simple Scan as an Alternative to VueScan
    Guest
    Negative
    3

    It doesn't emulate the driver of old scanners like vuescan for example.

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

    • Simple Scan is Free and Open SourceVueScan is Paid and Proprietary
  4. XSane icon

    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

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • AmigaOS
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  5. 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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    Platforms

    • Windows
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    Skanlite

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    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.

    22 Skanlite alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • KDE Plasma
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
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  7. Skanpage icon

    Skanpage

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    Skanpage is a simple scanning application designed for multi-page scanning and saving of documents and images.

    22 Skanpage alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
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    Comments about Skanpage as an Alternative to VueScan
    Golfy038
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    simple but efficient. No OCR.

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    • Skanpage is Free and Open SourceVueScan is Paid and Proprietary
  9. gscan2pdf icon

    gscan2pdf

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    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...

    29 gscan2pdf alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
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    Comments about gscan2pdf as an Alternative to VueScan
    Golfy038
    Positive
    0

    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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    • gscan2pdf is Free and Open SourceVueScan is Paid and Proprietary
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    ScanBridge

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    FOSS Android app for using network-enabled scanners supporting the eSCL protocol (AirScan).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Android
    • F-Droid
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    • ScanBridge is the most popular Android alternative to VueScan.

    • ScanBridge is Free and Open SourceVueScan is Paid and Proprietary
  11. 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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    Guest
    Negative
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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
  13. 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

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  14. scanservjs icon

    scanservjs

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    scanservjs is a web UI frontend for your scanner. It allows you to share one or more scanners (using SANE) on a network without the need for drivers or complicated installation.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Docker
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