VueScan Alternatives for Linux

There are many alternatives to VueScan for Linux if you are looking for a replacement. The best Linux alternative is NAPS2, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to VueScan and ten of them are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to VueScan are Simple Scan, XSane, gscan2pdf and Skanpage.

VueScan alternatives are mainly Document Scanners but may also be Image Scanners or iPhone File Managers. Filter by these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of VueScan.

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VueScan

Paid • Proprietary
Image Scanner

Third-party software for film scanners and flatbed scanners.

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NAPS2
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Free • Open Source
Document Scanner
Image Scanner
Mac
Windows
Linux
44 NAPS2 alternatives
NAPS2 is a document scanning application with a focus on simplicity and ease of use.
- - NAPS2 is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to VueScan.
- - NAPS2 is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to VueScan.
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NAPS2 Features
1. OCRExtract the text from a screen capture or file and paste it into another document for edits.
2. Ad-freeNAPS2 doesn't contain any form of external advertising.
3. PortableNAPS2 can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
4. Works OfflineNAPS2 can be used without the need to connect to the internet.
5. LightweightNAPS2 consumes less device resources compared to similar apps.
6. Command line interfaceNAPS2 either have CLI support or is a CLI-only app.
7. Built-in viewerNAPS2 shows you a quick preview of an image, page or file in supported formats.
Scan to PDF
Multiple Profiles
Split and merge PDF files
Export to PDF
PDF Page Merge
Works out of the box
Support for Batch Mode
PDF OCR
Multiple languages
Reorder pages
Comments about NAPS2 as a Alternative to VueScan
Most users think NAPS2 is a great VueScan alternative.
Guest
It doesn't emulate the driver twain of old scanners
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Guest
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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Simple Scan
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Free • Open Source
Document Scanner
Image Scanner
Linux
Flathub
25 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.
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Simple Scan Features
Scanner
Photo scan
Export to PDF
Scan to JPEG
Document Capture
Comments about Simple Scan as a Alternative to VueScan
Most users think Simple Scan is a great VueScan alternative.
Guest
It doesn't emulate the driver of old scanners like vuescan for example.
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XSane
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Free • Open Source
Image Scanner
Mac
Windows
Linux
AmigaOS
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...
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XSane Features
1. LightweightXSane consumes less device resources compared to similar apps.
2. No registration requiredYou can use most of the features in XSane without registration.
Scanner
Discontinued
The program is no longer updated. Last version, 0.998, released in November 2010, can be still downloaded from the official website.

Opinions about XSane as a Alternative to VueScan
Most users think XSane is a great VueScan alternative.
gscan2pdf
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Free • Open Source
Linux
26 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 gocr-OCR-engines
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gscan2pdf Features
1. OCRExtract the text from a screen capture or file and paste it into another document for edits.
PDF OCR
Scan to PDF
Export to PDF
Screenshot OCR
Split and merge PDF files
Comments about gscan2pdf as a Alternative to VueScan
pros, cons and recent comments
Golfy038
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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Skanpage
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Free • Open Source
Document Scanner
Linux
21 Skanpage alternatives
Skanpage is a simple scanning application designed for multi-page scanning and saving of documents and images.
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Skanpage Features
Scanner
KDE
Scan to PDF
Comments about Skanpage as a Alternative to VueScan
pros, cons and recent comments
Golfy038
simple but efficient. No OCR.
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Skanlite
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Free • Open Source
Document Scanner
Image Scanner
Linux
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.
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Skanlite Features
1. LightweightSkanlite consumes less device resources compared to similar apps.
Scanner
KDE
GNU/linux-libre
PaperScan
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Paid • Proprietary
Windows
Linux
27 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.
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PaperScan Features
1. OCRExtract the text from a screen capture or file and paste it into another document for edits.
Scanner
SwingSane
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Free • Open Source
Image Scanner
Document Scanner
Mac
Windows
Linux
BSD
18 SwingSane alternatives
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.
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SwingSane Features
1. PortableSwingSane can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
Scanner
Discontinued
Last update is from 2015.

Comments about SwingSane as a Alternative to VueScan
Most users think SwingSane is a great VueScan alternative.
Guest
does not emulate old scanner driver
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scanservjs
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Free • Open Source
Linux
Docker
1 scanservjs alternatives
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.
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scanservjs Features
Scanner
Scarse
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Free • Open Source
Windows
Linux
3 Scarse alternatives
Scanner CAlibration ReaSonably Easy

Scarse is a free color calibration and management software package. It lets you build and use ICC profiles. Custom profiles can be generated from variety of calibration targets.
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Scarse Features
Calibration
Scanner
Discontinued
The project was abandoned. Last update was released in October 2005.
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