Skanpage is a simple scanning application optimized for multi-page document scanning. It can also scan and save single-page documents and images.
It uses tesseract as an OCR engine. Through KSaneCore, Skanpage is relying on the SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy) backends for interfacing with the scanner hardware.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Scanning from flatbed and ADF scanners.
- Configurable options for scanning device.
- Reordering, rotation, and deletion of scanned pages.
- Saving to multi-page PDF documents and image files.
Website: apps.kde.org/skanpage
Support: Code Repository
Developer: Kare Sars, Alexander Stippich
License: GNU General Public License v2.0
Skanpage is written in C++. Learn C++ with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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