Open Source Windows Scan AlternativesDocument Scanners and other similar apps like Windows Scan

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   NAPS2

    174 likes

   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

   • Document Scanner
   • Image Scanner

   Origin

   • United States

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Linux

   

   

   

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   Simple Scan

    58 likes

   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 (GPL-3.0)

   Application types

   • Document Scanner
   • Image Scanner

   Origin

   • Australia

   Platforms

   • Linux
   • Flathub
   • GNOME

   

   

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   Scanner (Simon Knuth)

    4 likes

   An all-in-one scanner app built for the Universal Windows Platform.

   4 Scanner (Simon Knuth) alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (MPL-2.0)

   Application types

   • Document Scanner
   • Image Scanner

   Platforms

   • Windows

   

   

   

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   Skanlite

    10 likes

   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 (GPL-3.0)

   Application types

   • Image Scanner
   • Document Scanner

   Origin

   • Germany
   • EU

   Platforms

   • Linux
   • KDE Plasma
   • Flathub
   • Flatpak

   

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   Skanpage

    3 likes

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

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application type

   • Document Scanner

   Origin

   • Germany
   • EU

   Platforms

   • Linux
   • Flathub

   

   

   

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   gscan2pdf

    21 likes

   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

   • Image Scanner

   Origin

   • United Kingdom

   Platforms

   • Linux

   

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   XSane

    18 likes

   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

   • Image Scanner

   Origin

   • Germany
   • EU

   Alerts

   • Discontinued

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Linux
   • AmigaOS

   

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    Scanned Image Extractor

     8 likes

    Scanned Image Extractor is a tool for efficiently extracting rectangular photographs from album or (multiple) photograph scans.

    5 Scanned Image Extractor alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    • Image Scanner

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux

    

    

    

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    GpScanner

     1 like

    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 types

    • Document Scanner
    • Image Scanner

    Platforms

    • Windows

    

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    SwingSane

     1 like

    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

    • Image Scanner
    • Document Scanner

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD

    

    

    

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