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




SwingSane is described as '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' and is a Image Scanner in the photos & graphics category. There are more than 10 alternatives to SwingSane for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Flathub, Mac and GNOME apps. The best SwingSane alternative is NAPS2, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like SwingSane are Simple Scan, VueScan, Skanlite and PDFill.
NAPS2 is a document scanning application with a focus on simplicity and ease of use.




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.


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.

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.

With PDFill you can create, fill, delete and submit PDF form fields; insert new formatted text, check, image, hyperlink, whiteout, highlight, drawing, comment and annotation anywhere in the document; save, print or email the filled and password-protected PDF; save and resume...



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



Digitally archive, scan, and optimize photos with tools for advanced correction, batch jobs, printer calibration, real-time previews, and QuickTime tutorials. Works as stand-alone or Photoshop plug-in and supports over 340 scanner models for professionals and beginners.


Save scanned documents into new or existing PDF ... by using installed scanner.

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...

Scanitto Pro is Windows-based software application for image scanning, direct printing and copying, basic editing and text recognition (OCR).



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.



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.
