NAPS2

Free, open-source scanning software that scans paper documents to PDF and runs OCR.

Details

NAPS2 is a free, open-source scanning tool that scans paper documents to PDF, TIFF, JPEG, PNG and other formats, with built-in OCR. It suits scanning paper lab records, handwritten notes, forms and archives into electronic documents before further OCR or organisation.

Use cases: scan to PDF, digitising paper materials, OCR, archiving lab records, organising archives

Recommended combination: NAPS2 + OCRmyPDF / Tesseract OCR / PaddleOCR