iCopy - Free Photocopier vs XSane

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.

XSane is a free, open-source graphical frontend for scanners. It supports ICC/ICM color profiles and image enhancements for gamma handling and histograms. Standalone tools can scan and save, scan and view, copy, fax and email. Scan-and-save supports JPEG, PNG, PNM, PS, raw and TIFF formats. XSane also works as a GIMP plug-in. The SANE frontend listing marks it temporarily offline, while download guidance points users to distributor or volunteer binary packages and recommends vendor packages for Linux. Git snapshots may contain fixes or features absent from stable releases, but the project says those builds are untested. The SANE homepage lists sane-frontends 1.0.14 as released on 2005-09-18. Listed platforms include Linux, Unix, OS/2 and Windows, including a Windows 9x/NT/2000 network scanning version. Users can report bugs or missing features through the project issues system.