PaperScan is a powerful scanning software with an OCR engine centered on one idea : making document acquisition an unparalleled easy task for anyone.

You have many different scanners or plan to buy new scanner?
PaperScan is simply universal while most of the scanning applications are dedicated to one scanner or one protocol.

With PaperScan you can control any scanner ( TWAINor WIA)

You prefer to use the scanner's software for document acquisition?

Import any image/PDF files in PaperScan, arrange them in any imaginable single-page/multi-page configuration, then perform a wide range of image adjustments/enhacements and save your work in various file formats including JPEG, TIFF, PDF and JBIG2JBIG2JBIG2 encoding is a a revolutionary breakthrough in captured document technology allowing scanned images to be compressed up to 10x smaller than with TIFF G4 and TIFF-based PDFs. It allows documents of any types to be viewed and manipulated efficiently over the Internet, and affords digital copiers/printers efficient network transmission of digitally copied documents.

Image correction/enhancement features include:

autodeskew (AutodeskewAutodeskew is an artifact that can occur in scanned images because of the camera being misaligned, imperfections in the scanning or surface, or simply because the paper was not placed completely flat when scanned. Deskew is the process of removing skew from images.)

remove punch holes

remove borders

blank pages detection and removal

angle rotation

convert to black and white or 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

apply contour, sepia or scanline effects

erase a specific area

Other features include:

image printing

image quality selection

area selection / crop selected area

image resize

information about image's resolution, size and colour mode

Save your work as single/multipage files in various file formats:
PDF/A, TIFF, JPEG, PNG, JBIG2JBIG2JBIG2 encoding is a a revolutionary breakthrough in captured document technology allowing scanned images to be compressed up to 10x smaller than with TIFF G4 and TIFF-based PDFs. It allows documents of any types to be viewed and manipulated efficiently over the Internet, and affords digital copiers/printers efficient network transmission of digitally copied documents. ., PDF/OCRPDF/OCRPDF Searchable Image (often called PDF/OCR) is a PDF image-based document which, in addition to the visual representation of the original document (bitmapped layer), also contains a (hidden) text layer resulted from Optical Character Recognition (OCR) process so you can search for any word on any page of the PDF document. PaperScan uses Tesseract OCR engine to create PDF/OCR files. Text can be viewed in PDF Viewer apps, such as Adobe Reader, PaperLight, etc.. with post-naming options.

You can use PaperScan for any Windows operating system starting with Windows 2000.
Both 32-bit and 64-bit drivers are supported.

For later versions of Windows you don't need administrator privileges to run PaperScan.

PaperScan is available in 2 versions : Free Edition and Professional Edition. Both versions provide same set of features but the free edition has some limitations.
Technical support is free for evaluation phase and for license owners