Top 15 Simple Scan Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

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.

It's very simple, there are no advanced features, but it works well for everyday scans. It can save in PDF, JPG or PNG format.

Simple Scan is basically a frontend for SANE - which is the same backend as XSANE uses. This means that all existing scanners will work and the interface is well tested.

1. SwingSane

SwingSane 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. It can also be used with your own application to provide......

2. CamScanner

CamScanner Camscanner turns your phone into a portable scanner. Archive all your paper documents, receipts, notes, whiteboard discussions anywhere and anytime. Camscanner's Smart Image cropping and Image enhancement algorithm ensures the scanned images are perfectly clear and recognizable. Camscanner Free contains ads, Camscanner+ is commercial.......

3. Quick Scan

Quick Scan Quick Scan, as the name implies, aims to speed up the scan process and increase your productivity by scanning more documents in a shorter period of time.Quick Scan comes with the ability to scan the documents using different color modes, including RGB, grayscale or black and white. If you need......

4. Skanlite

Skanlite Skanlite is a simple image scanning application that does nothing more than scan and save images, based on the KSane backend. Skanlite can open a save dialog for every image scanned or save the images immediately in a specified directory with auto-generated names and format. The user can also choose......

5. Epson Scan

Epson Scan Product support troubleshooting and driver downloads for Epson Printers, Scanners, Digital Cameras, All in Ones, Multimedia Projectors.......

6. VueScan

VueScan Third-party software for film scanners and flatbed scanners.VueScan is a powerful, easy-to-use program that:-Scans documents, photos and film-Creates PDF, JPEG, TIFF and TXT files-Supports over 1200 scanners......

7. XSane

XSane 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 support some basic functions......

8. Tiny Scanner

Tiny Scanner Tiny Scanner is a fast and simple document scanner for your mobile device.FEATURES* Scan documents, photos, receipts, or just about anything* Lightning fast and gorgeously designed for both iPhone and iPad* Batch mode combines multiple scans into a single PDF......

9. Scanned Image Extractor

Scanned Image Extractor Scanned Image Extractor is a tool for efficiently extracting rectangular photographs from album or (multiple) photograph scans. It is semi-automated, hence it tries to suggest recognized photographs but you have to verify, delete bad suggestions and possibly add missing photographs manually.......

10. Google PhotoScan

Google PhotoScan PhotoScan lets you create enhanced digital scans of your old photos, with automatic edge detection, perspective correction, and smart rotation.FEATURES- Scan in just seconds.- Get glare-free scans with an easy step-by-step capture flow.- Automatic cropping based on edge detection- Straight, rectangular scans with perspective correction- Smart rotation, so your photos......

11. FreeKapture

FreeKapture 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.TWAIN is, allegedly, an acronym for Technology Without An Interesting Name and is software (a......

12. Unfade

Unfade The highly accurate auto detection and -cropping of photos makes photo scanning quick and easy. Intelligent filters revive faded colors. The result: high quality digital pictures.Unfade was created by the developers of Scanbot, the leading document scanner app in the App Store. Scanbot was downloaded more than 5 million times......

13. Scanbot

Scanbot Scanbot is the leading Document and QR Code scanner app for iOS and Android. You can create premium quality scans of every document. Edit, sign and upload them to your cloud. Experience the new QR code and smart data type detection.......

14. ScanSnap Organizer

ScanSnap Organizer The ScanSnap S1500 provides Windows® users an effective way to greatly reduce paper clutter, storage space, and security risk associated with unmanaged paperwork at home or office. Even better, documents scanned by ScanSnap take on a higher level of accessibility and usefulness once liberated into the digital realm.......

15. DocSmart

DocSmart DocSmart not only transforms your iPhone into a portable scanner but as well as into a portable document management system.It allows you to scan any kind of documents even multipage documents. The document is automatically detected, scanned, cleaned and the integrated text recognition (OCR) analyses your document very quickly. The......