NAPS2 Alternatives for Linux

There are many alternatives to NAPS2 for Linux if you are looking for a replacement. The best Linux alternative is Simple Scan, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to NAPS2 and ten of them are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to NAPS2 are VueScan, gscan2pdf, Skanlite and Skanpage.

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NAPS2 alternatives are mainly Image Scanners, but if you're looking for Document Scanners or Screenshot Capture Tools you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Windows + Free, Mac, Free, Windows, Linux and Android Tablet. You can also filter by region, for example EU-based alternatives if you prefer software developed in the European Union. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to NAPS2.

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Simple Scan
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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 typeApplication types
Document Scanner
Image Scanner
Origin
Australia
Platforms
Linux
Flathub
GNOME
Australia
Good alternative?Is Simple Scan a good alternative to NAPS2?

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Simple Scan vs NAPS2 Comments
Negative comment by Guest · Feb 14, 2016
does not work with BenQ 5000
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Simple Scan is Free and Open SourceNAPS2 is also Free and Open Source
VueScan
41 likes
Scans 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.
32 VueScan alternatives
Cost / License
Paid
Proprietary
Application type
Image Scanner
Origin
United States
Platforms
Mac
Windows
Linux
Flathub
United States
Good alternative?Is VueScan a good alternative to NAPS2?
gscan2pdf
20 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...
33 gscan2pdf alternatives
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Application type
Image Scanner
Origin
United Kingdom
Platforms
Linux
United Kingdom
Good alternative?Is gscan2pdf a good alternative to NAPS2?

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gscan2pdf vs NAPS2 Comments
Positive comment by D33pSh33p · Sep 16, 2024
gscan2pdf is nicer to work with, seems to have more features. OCR in NAPS2 seem to be limited to only making PDFs searchable while gscan2pdf converted scans into text quite well.
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gscan2pdf is Free and Open SourceNAPS2 is also Free and Open Source
gscan2pdf is an Image Scanner NAPS2 is a Scan documents
Skanlite
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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.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Application typeApplication types
Image Scanner
Document Scanner
Origin
Germany
EU
Platforms
Linux
KDE Plasma
Flathub
Flatpak
Germany
EU
Good alternative?Is Skanlite a good alternative to NAPS2?
Skanpage
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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
Germany
EU
Good alternative?Is Skanpage a good alternative to NAPS2?
XSane
17 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...
19 XSane alternatives
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Application typeApplication types
Image Scanner
Document Scanner
Origin
Germany
EU
Alerts
Discontinued
Platforms
Mac
Windows
Linux
AmigaOS
Germany
EU
Good alternative?Is XSane a good alternative to NAPS2?
PaperScan
3 likes
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.
Cost / License
Paid
Proprietary
Platforms
Windows
Linux
Good alternative?Is PaperScan a good alternative to NAPS2?

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PaperScan vs NAPS2 Comments
Positive comment by Guest · Oct 14, 2020
Erasing names, signatures etc is something NAPS2 doesn't offer(yet)
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PaperScan is Paid and ProprietaryNAPS2 is Free and Open Source
Opendias
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The openDias project is an Open Source offering, to bring a professional document scanning and storage utility for the home user. OpenDias (Document Imaging Archive System) provides document storage and a document work-flow application to the home or small business user.
Cost / License
Free
Proprietary
Application type
Document Manager
Alerts
Discontinued
Platforms
Linux
Good alternative?Is Opendias a good alternative to NAPS2?
EasyOCR
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Ready-to-use OCR with 80+ supported languages and all popular writing scripts including Latin, Chinese, Arabic, Devanagari, Cyrillic and etc.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (Apache-2.0)
Application type
OCR Engine
Origin
Thailand
Platforms
Windows
Linux
Thailand
Good alternative?Is EasyOCR a good alternative to NAPS2?
CopyFish
19 likes
Copy, paste and translate text from any image, video or PDF.
83 CopyFish alternatives
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (GPL-2.0)
Origin
Germany
EU
Platforms
Mac
Windows
Linux
Microsoft Edge
Google Chrome
Mozilla Firefox
Germany
EU
Good alternative?Is CopyFish a good alternative to NAPS2?

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CopyFish vs NAPS2 Comments
Negative comment by Jonathan Brickman · Jul 30, 2018
NAPS2 does scanning. This one does not.
Negative comment by Guest · Oct 29, 2020
This program does not perform scans, just capture web images
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CopyFish is Free and Open SourceNAPS2 is also Free and Open Source