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NAPS2WinScan2PDF
Free

The open-source application is available without a license fee.

 Free

Freeware.

Windows, macOS, Linux Windows
  • Works with nearly any scanner protocol on Windows, macOS and Linux
  • Built-in OCR produces searchable PDFs with no extra step
  • Scans multi-page documents into PDFs
  • Can save scans as JPEG files
  • Deliberately simple; it is not a document management system
  • OCR language packs must be downloaded separately
  • Available for Windows only
Downloadable app Downloadable app
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Checked September 22, 2026

Checked October 8, 2026

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