NAPS2 is a document scanning application with a focus on simplicity and ease of use.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
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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 nine of them are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to VueScan are Simple Scan, XSane, Skanlite and PaperScan.
Alternatives list
51 NAPS2 alternatives
26 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.
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...
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- AmigaOS
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.
29 PaperScan alternativesPaperScan 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.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Windows
- Linux
Skanpage is a simple scanning application designed for multi-page scanning and saving of documents and images.
30 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...
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.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
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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 (GPL-2.0)
Platforms
- Linux
- Docker
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