Document Scanner
GNOME's simple scanning app, formerly Simple Scan, for saving scanned documents as PDFs or images.
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Package managers
- Flathub
flatpak install flathub org.gnome.SimpleScan
About Document Scanner
Document Scanner, long known as Simple Scan, is the GNOME desktop's app for getting paper documents off a scanner and onto disk. It keeps the interface minimal: scan pages and save the result as a PDF or as image files.
It is developed in GNOME's GitLab under the GPLv3 and ships with releases alongside the rest of the GNOME desktop. It suits Linux users who want a straightforward scanning tool rather than a full-featured scanning suite.
Strengths
- Minimal, easy interface
- Saves scans as PDF or images
- Part of the GNOME desktop
Limitations
- Linux only
- Few advanced scanning options by design
Details
- Pricing
- FreeFree and open source under the GPLv3.
- License
- GPL-3.0
- Developer
- The GNOME Project
- Platforms
- Linux
- How it runs
- Downloadable app
- Account
- Not required
- Works offline
- Yes
- Best suited for
- Linux desktop users who need to scan documents to PDF quickly
- Categories
- PDF tools, Office tools
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Facts checked against the developer's own pages and store listings, 1 sources on file.
Alternatives to Document Scanner
Compare allSoftware that can replace Document Scanner for an important use case, and what changes if you switch.
NAPS2
Simple document scanning to PDF with built-in OCR.
NAPS2 also scans to PDF simply, but adds built-in OCR for searchable PDFs and runs on Windows and macOS as well as Linux.
gscan2pdf
Linux graphical program for scanning documents and saving them as PDF or DjVu files.
gscan2pdf is another Linux scanning app using SANE, adding DjVu output and import of existing PDFs, with a plainer and more dated interface.
Paperwork
A personal document manager that scans or imports papers and makes them searchable.
Paperwork scans documents into a searchable personal archive with automatic labels, running on Linux and Windows, and is more of a document manager than a quick scanner.
Similar software
Related functionality, not necessarily a direct replacement.
ScanTailor Advanced
Desktop tool for cleaning up, deskewing, splitting and dewarping scanned book and document pages.
Tesseract OCR
The open-source OCR engine behind most free text recognition tools.
Papermerge OSS
Self-hosted document archive with OCR, tagging and full-text search.
Evince
GNOME's lightweight document viewer for PDF, PostScript and other document formats on Linux.
PDF Arranger
Drag PDF pages into the order you want, rotate them, crop them, and merge two files together.
