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 graphical program for accessing scanners and other image acquisition devices through SANE. It can preview images and scan from devices such as flatbed scanners, with available hardware depending on the installed device and configuration. Its viewer, save, copy, fax, and mail modes cover several ways to handle an acquired image. Used on its own, XSane saves scans as PNM or converts them to JPEG, PNG, PS, or TIFF. It can also send an image to a printer or serve as a frontend to a fax program. XSane can be invoked through The GIMP to pass images there for further processing. SANE also includes a network protocol for accessing image acquisition devices over a network. The listed features include color management, gamma enhancement, and a histogram. XSane is free, requires a SANE-compatible scanner, and is listed for Linux and Windows. Its source description also names OS/2 and various Unix systems; package dependencies include SANE and GTK 2.