ScanTailor Advanced Alternatives

ScanTailor Advanced is described as 'Scan Tailor is an interactive post-processing tool for scanned pages. It performs operations such as page splitting, deskewing, adding/removing borders, and others. You give it raw scans, and you get pages ready to be printed or assembled into a PDF or DJVU file' and is a popular document scanner in the office & productivity category. There are more than 10 alternatives to ScanTailor Advanced for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, iPhone and iPad apps. The best ScanTailor Advanced alternative is PDF-XChange Editor, which is free. Other great apps like ScanTailor Advanced are PDFedit, gscan2pdf, ScanTailor Universal and K2PDFOPT.

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  1. PDF-XChange Editor icon

    PDF-XChange Editor

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    Feature-rich PDF editor offering direct content editing, ABBYY OCR, viewing, annotation, form filling, PDF merging, compression, and encryption. Operates efficiently offline, requiring no registration and no ads, while providing privacy-focused features and convenient portability.

    145 PDF-XChange Editor alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
    • Wine
    Version 10 (2024)
     

    • Some users think PDF-XChange Editor is a great ScanTailor Advanced alternative, some don't.

    • PDF-XChange Editor is the most popular Windows alternative to ScanTailor Advanced.

    • PDF-XChange Editor is the most popular free alternative to ScanTailor Advanced.

    • PDF-XChange Editor is Freemium and ProprietaryScanTailor Advanced is Free and Open Source
    • PDF-XChange Editor is Customizable and Privacy focusedScanTailor Advanced is not according to our users
  2. PDFedit icon

    PDFedit

     24 likes

    Free (and open source) editor for manipulating PDF documents. GUI version + commandline interface. Scripting is used to a great extent in editor and almost anything can be scripted, it is possible to create own scripts or plugins.

    92 PDFedit alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
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    • PDFedit is the most popular Linux alternative to ScanTailor Advanced.

    • PDFedit is the most popular Open Source alternative to ScanTailor Advanced.

    • PDFedit is Free and Open SourceScanTailor Advanced is also Free and Open Source
  4. gscan2pdf icon

    gscan2pdf

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    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

    Platforms

    • Linux
    Main Window
     
  5. ScanTailor Universal icon

    ScanTailor Universal

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    ScanTailor Universal - a fork based on Enhanced+Featured+Master versions of ST - trufanov-nok/scantailor-universal

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     

    • ScanTailor Universal is the most popular Mac alternative to ScanTailor Advanced.

    • ScanTailor Universal is Free and Open SourceScanTailor Advanced is also Free and Open Source
  6. K2PDFOPT icon

    K2PDFOPT

     18 likes

    K2pdfopt (Kindle 2 PDF Optimizer) is a stand-alone program which optimizes the format of PDF (or DJVU) files for viewing on small (e.g. 6-inch) mobile reader and smartphone screens such as the Kindle's.

    2 K2PDFOPT alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  7. Book Scan Wizard icon

    Book Scan Wizard

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    A utility to help with Book scanning using cameras as a scanner. It will automate things such as cropping, rotating, fixing keystoning, fixing the DPI, and outputing it to tiff files that can be changed into PDF's or ebooks.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Java
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  9. fileee icon

    fileee

     5 likes

    With fileee you can scan, organize and access your documents anywhere, anytime. fileee analyzes your documents, automatically recognizes important content and sorts your documents accordingly. Thanks to fileee, you always have your documents at hand and can find what you need in...

    63 fileee alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
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    • fileee is the most popular Web-based, Android, iPhone, iPad & Android Tablet alternative to ScanTailor Advanced.

    • fileee is Freemium and ProprietaryScanTailor Advanced is Free and Open Source
  10. YASW (Yet Another Scan Wizard) icon

    YASW (Yet Another Scan Wizard)

     2 likes

    Download YASW for free. Yet Another Scan Wizard. YASW (Yet Another Scan Wizard) is an application used to correct images taken with a camera or scanner. It can be used to post process the scanning of a book.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
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  12. HP Easy Scan icon

    HP Easy Scan

     1 like

    HP Easy Scan is designed specifically for use with your HP scanner or multifunction printer. With features such as automatic photo detection, multi-page document processing, text recognition (OCR)[1], and PDF file output.

    1 HP Easy Scan alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  13. DocScan icon

    DocScan

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    When you need a digital copy of some paper document to send out, but there is no flatbed scanner nearby, it can help you!

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad
    Auto detect whiteboards ? rectify perspective distortion ? brighten up
     
  14. JotNot Scanner icon

    JotNot Scanner

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    JotNot Scanner uses the phone's camera to scan documents and pictures into electronic PDF files that can be saved on the phone. The application also processes the images to make them clearer.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
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