PaperScan Free Edition offers scanner control for TWAIN/WIA devices, network scanners, cameras, and acquisition cards. It supports flatbed and document feeder, includes image enhancement tools.
PaperScan Free Edition is an excellent universal scanning software that is designed to be powerful while also being simple to use. Unlike most scanning applications that are dedicated to a single scanner or scanning protocol, PaperScan allows you to take control of any scanner, including network scanners operating on either TWAIN or WIA protocols, as well as cameras and acquisition cards. All features of these scanners are automatically negotiated and handled by PaperScan for your convenience.
PaperScan supports flatbed and document feeder options for scanning. Additionally, you can import already existing images or PDF files into PaperScan in order to adjust and enhance the quality of the image. PaperScan features several image enhancement options, including auto-deskewing, removing punch holes and borders, detecting and removing blank pages, perform angle rotation, convert to black and white, greyscale or colour, adjust colour (brightness, contrast, saturation, gamma), apply filters to smooth, stretch contrast or median the image, apply bitonal filters to remove isolated dots or to dilate/erode characters, define contour and get sepia or scanline effects.
In addition to these features, PaperScan also includes other valuable tools such as image rendering quality selection, area selection, image cropping, image resizing, image printing, and more. PaperScan displays important information on resolution, size, and colour mode of the image. You can easily handle acquired or imported files to create either multipage document or single-page document files. You can also save files in a variety of formats such as PDF, encrypted PDF, TIFF, JPEG, PNG, and even JBIG2 for added versatility.
The default user interface language in PaperScan is English, but the program automatically displays any localised version of the interface that might exist, depending on your Windows language settings. Currently, the available languages are English and French. PaperScan is based on the highly-effective GdPicture Imaging SDK Technology, which is renowned for its accuracy and quality in image processing. Overall, PaperScan Free Edition is a highly recommended scanning software that offers powerful capabilities and intuitive usability.
PaperScan supports flatbed and document feeder options for scanning. Additionally, you can import already existing images or PDF files into PaperScan in order to adjust and enhance the quality of the image. PaperScan features several image enhancement options, including auto-deskewing, removing punch holes and borders, detecting and removing blank pages, perform angle rotation, convert to black and white, greyscale or colour, adjust colour (brightness, contrast, saturation, gamma), apply filters to smooth, stretch contrast or median the image, apply bitonal filters to remove isolated dots or to dilate/erode characters, define contour and get sepia or scanline effects.
In addition to these features, PaperScan also includes other valuable tools such as image rendering quality selection, area selection, image cropping, image resizing, image printing, and more. PaperScan displays important information on resolution, size, and colour mode of the image. You can easily handle acquired or imported files to create either multipage document or single-page document files. You can also save files in a variety of formats such as PDF, encrypted PDF, TIFF, JPEG, PNG, and even JBIG2 for added versatility.
The default user interface language in PaperScan is English, but the program automatically displays any localised version of the interface that might exist, depending on your Windows language settings. Currently, the available languages are English and French. PaperScan is based on the highly-effective GdPicture Imaging SDK Technology, which is renowned for its accuracy and quality in image processing. Overall, PaperScan Free Edition is a highly recommended scanning software that offers powerful capabilities and intuitive usability.
What's New
Version 3.0.21:
- New User Interface with many bug fixes and better performance.
- More than 20 new filters and effects.
- Support for SVG, EMF and WMF file format added.
- New advanced printing dialog to specify alignment, adjustment, orientation...
- New preview feature in scanning wizard.