NAPS2 is a document scanning application with a focus on simplicity and ease of use.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
United States
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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 12 is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to VueScan are Simple Scan, ScanBridge, Skanlite and XSane.
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Alternatives list
- 55 NAPS2 alternatives
27 Simple Scan alternativesSimple Scan is an easy-to-use application, designed to let users connect their scanner and quickly have the image/document in an appropriate format.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Linux
- Flathub
- GNOME
Australia
FOSS Android app for using network-enabled scanners supporting the eSCL protocol (AirScan).
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Platforms
- Android
- F-Droid
21 Skanlite alternativesSkanlite 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.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Linux
- KDE Plasma
- Flathub
- Flatpak
Germany
EU
19 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...
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- AmigaOS
- Germany
- EU
Skanpage is a simple scanning application designed for multi-page scanning and saving of documents and images.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Linux
- Flathub
- Germany
- EU
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MPL-2.0)
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Windows
8 iCopy Free Photocopier alternativesiCopy 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!
Platforms
- Windows
35 gscan2pdf alternativesgscan2pdf 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...
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Linux
United Kingdom
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 (Apache-2.0)
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Windows
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 (GPL-2.0)
Platforms
- Linux
- Docker
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
