NAPS2 is a document scanning application with a focus on simplicity and ease of use.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
United StatesPlatforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
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XSane Alternatives for Linux
There are many alternatives to XSane for Linux and since it's discontinued a lot of people 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 10 alternatives to XSane and six of them are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to XSane are Simple Scan, VueScan, Skanlite and Skanpage.
Alternatives list
49 NAPS2 alternatives
25 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.
29 VueScan alternativesScans documents, photos, and film on Windows, macOS, and Linux, with support for over 1200 scanners, PDF, JPEG, TIFF, and TXT output, advanced adjustments, batch processing, OCR, color correction, obsolete device support, and easy-to-use interface.
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.
21 Skanpage alternativesSkanpage 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...
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NAPS2 is not a SANE front-end, it supports only Windows scanning protocols (SANE and TWAIN), thus network scanners can't be connected.