IRISPowerscan vs NAPS2
IRISPowerscan
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NAPS2
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| Figure | IRISPowerscan | NAPS2 |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | — | Free |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | — | Yes |
| Linux | — | Yes |
| API | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 2 |
| Spec score · Document Scanning Software | 7.7 (#14) | 8.6 (#3) |
| Maker | IRIS states it was founded in 1987 and became a wholly owned Canon Group subsidiary in 2013. | The project identifies Ben Olden-Cooligan as its developer and copyright holder. |
| Purpose | IRISPowerscan captures, sorts, indexes, and exports paper documents and files into business applications and document workflows. | NAPS2 is free, open source scanning software for scanning documents and saving them as PDF, TIFF, JPEG, or PNG. |
| Scanner support | The product supports all scanner brands and the TWAIN, ISIS, and VRS interfaces. | It supports WIA and TWAIN drivers and can scan from a flatbed or automatic document feeder, including duplex scanning. |
| Support | Technical support for IRISPowerscan 12 is available only under a valid maintenance contract. | Users can file a support ticket and attach NAPS2 error logs to help diagnose a problem or report a bug. |
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In their own words
IRISPowerscan
IRISPowerscan has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.
NAPS2
NAPS2 is free, open-source software for scanning documents and saving them as PDF, TIFF, JPEG, or PNG. It runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux, and supports WIA and TWAIN drivers with flatbed or automatic document feeder scanners, including duplex scanning. Users can reorder, interleave, rotate, crop, deskew, and adjust scanned pages’ brightness and contrast. OCR makes scans searchable, supports more than 100 languages, and can add text recognition to imported PDFs. NAPS2 can share scanners across a local network using ESCL, including with compatible Android and iPhone apps, but it must remain running on the server for sharing to work. It can send email through Gmail and Outlook, with the email address and secure sending token kept on the user’s computer and sent only to the relevant provider. Optional developer tools include a command-line interface for automation and a .NET scanning library. The free plan has no ads or restrictions, though OCR results cannot be saved directly to a text file.