SilverFast AlternativesImage Scanners and other similar apps like SilverFast

SilverFast is described as 'Digitize and optimize images with automatic functions, advanced correction, printer calibration, real-time previews, and support for over 340 scanners' and is a Image Scanner in the photos & graphics category. There are more than 10 alternatives to SilverFast for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Flathub and GNOME apps. The best SilverFast alternative is NAPS2, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like SilverFast are Simple Scan, VueScan, Skanlite and XSane.

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  1. NAPS2 icon
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    NAPS2 is a document scanning application with a focus on simplicity and ease of use.

    49 NAPS2 alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
    • NAPS2 is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to SilverFast.

    • NAPS2 is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to SilverFast.

    • NAPS2 is Free and Open SourceSilverFast is Paid and Proprietary
    • NAPS2 is Lightweight and Privacy focusedSilverFast is not according to our users
  2. VueScan icon
     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.

    30 VueScan alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
     
    • VueScan is the most popular commercial alternative to SilverFast.

    • VueScan is Paid and ProprietarySilverFast is also Paid and Proprietary
  3. Skanlite icon
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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.

    22 Skanlite alternatives

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • KDE Plasma
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
     
  4. XSane icon
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    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

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • AmigaOS
     
  5. Scan2pdf icon
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    Super simple scanning tool, that works with majority of scanners out of the box. This software does one thing - you can quickly and simply scan to PDF.

    30 Scan2pdf alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. FreeKapture icon
     3 likes

    FreeKapture give you the option to scan from your scanner, and then save the image: its a free Twain image capture application from TSoft that should work on any Windows (98 and on) Twain compliant system.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  7. SwingSane icon
     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

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  8. GpScanner icon
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    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

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. Profile Prism is software that allows monitor calibration and can generate ICC profiles for digital cameras, scanners, and printers using an IT8 reference target.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once or Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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