NAPS2 is a document scanning application with a focus on simplicity and ease of use. Scan your documents from WIA, TWAIN, SANE, and ESCL scanners, organize the pages as you like, and save them as PDF, TIFF, JPEG, or PNG.
Optical character recognition (OCR) is available using Tesseract.
This is free and open source software.
Features include:
- Scan with devices from Canon, Brother, HP, Epson, Fujitsu, and more. Then save to PDF, TIFF, JPEG, or PNG with a single click.
- Use SANE and ESCL drivers to connect to USB and network scanners. Also choose settings like DPI, page size, and bit depth. Scan from a flatbed or automatic document feeder (ADF), including duplex support.
- Rotate, crop, and rearrange images.
- Search through text included in your PDFs by using optical character recognition (OCR), in any of over 100 languages.
- Advanced batch scanning functionality to automate tedious scanning tasks. Combine multiple scans together and automatically number and timestamp files.
- Optional command-line interface (CLI) for automation and scripting
- Cross-platform software – runs under Linux, macOS, and Windows.
- Internationalization support
Website: www.naps2.com
Support: GitHub Code Repository
Developer: Ben Olden-Cooligan
License: GNU General Public License v2.0
NAPS2 is written in C#. Learn C# with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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