SwingSane!

Installing SANE on Ubuntu https://help.ubuntu.com/community/sane.
Install a SANE backend on Mac OS X http://www.ellert.se/twain-sane/.
Connect to a SANE backend on the same computer or over a network.

SwingSane alternatives

  • NAPS2

  • Scan with a single click

    tags: Portable command-line-support multi-language ocr pdf-ocr
  • Simple Scan

  • 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.

    tags: scanner scanning document-scanning image-scanning scan-image
  • PDFill

  • With PDFill you can create, fill, delete and submit PDF form fields; insert new formatted text, check, image, hyperlink, whiteout, highlight, drawing, comment and annotation anywhere in the document; save, print or email the filled and password-protected PDF; save and resume your filling anytime. PDF Writer is Freeware. PDF Editor is not.

    tags: batch-mode extract-images-from-pdf image-to-pdf merge-pdf pdf-annotation
  • 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 of those devices, but XSane is not designed for that purpose).

    tags: Discontinued image-scanning scanner scanning
  • VueScan

  • Third-party software for film scanners and flatbed scanners.

    tags: auto-repeat-scanning driver-emulation hardware-scanners image-scanning multi-scan
  • 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 to show the scanned image before saving. Skanlite replaced Kooka in KDE 4.

    tags: document-scanning image-scanning kde lightweight scanner
  • WinScan2PDF

  • Save the scanned documents into PDF.WinScan2PDF is a very small (~40k) and portable program that allows you to scan documents and save them on your computer as a PDF by using any installed scanner.

    tags: Portable multi-language multiple-pages-support scan-to-pdf
  • Scanitto Pro

  • This scanner software is lightweight, fast and not overloaded with tons of unnecessary features. Fine-tune your scanner settings, make one-click document copies and save documents to multi-page PDFs – its a choice you will never regret making! If you have a scanner that you use for a limited range of purposes (copying, simple text and photo scanning) and are looking for a tool that would be drop-dead easy to use, user-friendly, inexpensive and would do the job well every day, you definitely should check out Scanitto Pro. »

    tags: image-scanning manual-duplex-scanning multi-language ocr scan-to-pdf
  • Scan2pdf

  • Super simple scanning tool, that works with majority of scanners out of the box. This software does one thing - you can quickly and simply scan to PDF.

    tags: Discontinued Portable pdf scan-to-pdf scanning
  • 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.

    tags: scanner scan-image
  • AXPDF Scan to PDF Converter

  • AXPDF Scan to PDF Converter scan your paper documents into PDF format quickly, accurately and directly. In addition, you can import existing images and combine all the image files into a single PDF. Create PDF from scanned files and images is as easily as clicking buttons.

    tags: batch-mode create-pdf document-scanning image-to-pdf pdf-creation
  • Softi Scan to PDF

  • Scan to PDF software for Windows 7 Vista and XP. Most Twain devices supported from HP, Canon, Brother, Kodak ect.

    tags: Discontinued scan-to-pdf scanner
  • Flegita

  • The Flegita (Gnome Scan project) aim to provide scan features every where in the Gnome desktop like print is.

    tags: image-scanning
  • InSaneScanner

  • InSaneScanner is a front end for SANE - Scanner Access Now Easy (see: http://www.sane-project.org ). It allows scanning from flatbed scanner directly to your Android device. Once scanned, the image can be emailed or seen in Android graphics viewer and saved. SANE is a standard way to set up network scanning on Linux. You can use any inexpensive USB scanner supported by the SANE project. You can even scan over the Internet if your server is configured this way.

    tags: scanner sane flatbed flat-bed linux-scanning.