Brother iPrint&Scan vs GNOME Document Scanner

Brother iPrint&Scan lets owners of supported Brother machines print from and scan to the machine using mobile devices or computers. On mobile, it can print photos, documents, and web pages; the Android FAQ also lists Gmail and cloud services. Depending on the platform, scans can be saved to the device or cloud storage, emailed, or opened in other apps. The iOS listing names Dropbox, OneDrive, and Evernote for printing, and iCloud as a scan destination. On supported newer models, mobile features may include image editing, fax sending and preview, copy preview, and machine status. Windows and macOS provide detailed scan controls, and users can save settings as reusable Workflows. The app is free, with listed output formats of PDF and JPEG, and support for OCR and ADF. Brother lists Windows 7 or later and macOS 10.10 or later. Printing and scanning are not available on every Brother machine; mobile devices must be on the same Wi-Fi network as the machine.

GNOME Document Scanner makes digital copies of photos and documents on Linux. Scans can be cropped or rotated, printed, exported to PDF or saved as JPEG or PNG images. The app uses the SANE framework to support most existing scanners. With a scanner that has an automatic document feeder, it can scan pages from the feeder; two-sided scanning is available when the scanner supports it. The app can open the user's email program with a scan attached: text scans use PDF attachments, while image scans use JPEG attachments. The latest version is installed from Flathub, whose package is available for x86_64 and aarch64 architectures. Version 50.0 was released on 2026-04-02, and the project is licensed under GPL-3.0. The app is free and listed for Linux desktop use. Users can report issues through the project's GitLab issue tracker and consult the Document Scanner manual.