iCopy - Free Photocopier vs Skanlite

iCopy - Free Photocopier combines a scanner and printer to make copies or save scans as image or PDF files. Its controls let users adjust scanner and printer options, including brightness, contrast, and copy count; image settings also include scaling and resolution. Scanning modes include color, grayscale, and black and white, and users can preview a page before printing. An automatic document feeder can handle multiple pages, and the application can scan several pages before printing. It can save acquired pages as PDFs without other software and can be started with the scanner's button or from the command line. Output formats are JPG, BMP, GIF, PNG, and PDF. The maker describes the Windows application as small and requiring no installation, and provides a portable ZIP download. iCopy is open source under GNU General Public License v3. The listed plan costs nothing. The listed version is 1.7.0, released 1 August 2020, and requires.NET Framework. Listed language options are Bulgarian, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Slovak, and Spanish.

Skanlite is a free Linux application for scanning images with flatbed scanners. Supported scanners can capture photos, documents, transparent slides, and filmstrips. A preview and selection tool lets users define the final scan, and multiple selections can be taken from one image. Network scanners and batch scanning are supported. For saving, users may open a dialog for each image or save directly to a chosen folder with autogenerated names and format. Listed export formats are PNG, JPEG, JPG, JPEG 2000, and BMP. Linux installation is offered through Discover and other AppStream application stores, distribution package managers, and Flathub. The official page links to a handbook, forum, and bug-reporting route. Skanlite is published by KDE and listed under the GPL-2.0+ license. KDE says its software generally does not transfer device information except through explicit user action, while third-party distributors may modify software in privacy-affecting ways. The listed plan is free for desktop, with an 8 MiB download.