scantpaper is a GTK-based document scanning application for Linux. It acquires scans through SANE and lets you edit, organise and save documents in formats including PDF, DjVu, TIFF and image files.
The program is a Python rewrite of gscan2pdf. It supports flatbed and automatic document feeder scanners, single- and double-sided scanning, batch scanning, OCR, metadata and recovery of interrupted sessions. OCR uses Tesseract and OCRmyPDF to produce searchable PDF/A documents.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Scan documents using SANE-compatible scanners.
- Supports flatbed and automatic document feeder scanners.
- Scan single- or double-sided documents with automatic page interleaving.
- Batch scan multiple pages.
- Perform OCR using Tesseract and create searchable PDF/A documents.
- Import PDF, DjVu and image files.
- Crop, rotate, split and delete pages.
- Adjust brightness and contrast, apply thresholding, negate images and use an unsharp mask.
- Clean up scanned pages with unpaper.
- Save documents as PDF, DjVu, TIFF, PS, TXT, hOCR and image files.
- Prepend or append pages to an existing PDF.
- Add document metadata.
- Undo and redo editing operations.
- Recover crashed sessions when the application is next started.
- Run user-defined commands on scanned pages.
Website: github.com/carygravel/scantpaper
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Developer: Jeffrey Ratcliffe
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
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Related Software
| OCR Tools | |
|---|---|
| OCRmyPDF | Adds an OCR text layer to scanned PDFs using the unpaper utility |
| Paperwork | Simplify the management of your paperwork |
| OCRFeeder | Desktop OCR suite featuring a complete GTK graphical user interface |
| gImageReader | Simple Gtk/Qt front-end to Tesseract |
| gscan2pdf | GUI to produce PDFs or DjVus from scanned documents |
| lios | linux-intelligent-ocr-solution for converting print into text |
| hocr-tools | Manipulate and evaluate hOCR format |
| Skanpage | Simple scanning application optimized for multi-page document scanning |
| GOCR | Reads images in many formats |
| QuickSnip | OCR and Google Lens search |
| ocropy | Open source document analysis and OCR system |
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