(11 hours ago)denzjos Wrote: NAPS2 is free and open source scanning software for Windows, Mac and Linux.
Easily scan with devices from Canon, Brother, HP, Epson, Fujitsu, and more. Then save to PDF, TIFF, JPEG, or PNG with a single click.
https://www.naps2.com
Interesting
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For linux users, there are debs / rpms / flatpacks - no appimage but I did download the deb, unpack it, and it does run stand-alone and scans ok Using kubuntu 24.04 / Brother wireless printer/scanner. Not able to get the OCR to work, (it comes with a tesseract4), but that might be me. As an off-topic note, for Gimp xsane plugin, bit-the bullet, compiled it and that works. It finally reached version 1.0 after all these years.
I did go back and look at the OCR function. It does scan and export to a PDF with OCR'd text and it is very good. Uses the default font - which is Liberation-Sans for me - and the PDF is searchable. Still a graphic @ 100 ppi but searchable. Smaller than a Gimp PDF, larger than a pure text PDF such as you get from LibreOffice.