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WinScan2PDF v9.11 Updated

Andrew Lee on 29 Oct 2024
  • 206KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 28 Oct 2024
  • Suggested by Emka

WinScan2PDF is a very small program for scanning documents and saving them on your computer as a PDF by using any installed scanner.

Category:
Runs on:Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Win11
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the "Portable" ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch WinScan2PDF_p.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: Not Another PDF Scanner 2
What's new? See: https://softwareok.com/?seite=Microsoft/WinScan2PDF/History.
Latest comments
opsimathic on 2017-08-12 08:51

@Emka - The first item under OPTIONS look like you can set the utility to delete the jpgs when you exit the program. I have never been very sure the program actually does what it says, so I simply use the second item in OPTIONS to check and delete as necessary. Periodically I use the jpg instead the pdf so I actually find this useful. Bottom line is that I wish the author would clean all this up a bit more, but I find the utility so useful (use it every day almost) that I am prepared to work around the idiosyncrasies.

MIKLO on 2017-08-26 14:06

@__philippe thanks for the help I appreciate very much.
MIKLO

Emka on 2019-07-30 01:11

@MIKLO & _philippe: It now seems possible to select a folder for temporary files, so you can change the default location in AppData to the app's folder for example.

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NAPS2 v7.5.0 Updated

Andrew Lee on 11 Aug 2024
  • 8MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 11 Aug 2024
  • Suggested by Midas

NAPS2 (Not Another PDF Scanner 2) is a document scanning application with a focus on simplicity and ease of use. Scan your documents from WIA- and TWAIN-compatible scanners, organize the pages as you like, and save them as PDF, TIFF, JPEG, PNG, and other file formats.

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Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Dependencies: Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0
Unicode support: Yes
License: GNU GPLv2
How to extract:
  1. Download the "Portable" ZIP or 7Z package and extract to a folder of your choice
  2. Optionally delete contributors.txt, license.txt and unnecessary language files
  3. Launch NAPS2.Portable.exe
Similar/alternative apps: WinScan2PDF
What's new? See: https://github.com/cyanfish/naps2/releases/tag/v7.5.0

i2pdf v1.0.46

webfork on 15 Apr 2023
  • 1MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 18 Jul 2015
  • Suggested by gp_hbk

i2pdf (image to pdf) is a fast and compact application built to create PDF documents from a collection of images, typically scanned from a paper source or in form of digital photographs. i2pdf allows control over the final quality and size of the images stored inside the PDF. Supports JPG, PNG, BMP, GIF and TIFF file formats.

Note multi page / multi-frame formats are not supported (for example, multi-page TIFFs or animated GIFs). Additionally, transparency data is not preserved whether a PNG or GIF file.

NOTE: The i2pdf homepage is gone -- linking to Archive.org and Softpedia.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: No
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch i2pdf.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: FreeVImager, FileBlender
What's new?
  • Removed the executable packers, some minor cosmetic fixes.
Latest comments
NunoEFSilva on 2021-05-02 08:24

Another tiny app that is worth its bytes in gold.
Works like a charm and paired with Tomahawk PDF plus, tiny Fotografix and PDFTKBuilder allows final arts on the level of a desktop publishing suite.

Cornflower on 2022-08-01 11:26

This app is so good; I recommended it to others just this morning.

That said, can the download links (and website link) be updated to https://www.softpedia.com/get/Office-tools/PDF/i2pdf.shtml, per user shnbwmn? I verified both 32- and 64-bit are still there, but wonder how many people clicked the links, got 404 errors, and moved on.

Midas on 2022-08-02 06:46

@Cornflower: done! NOTE2 posted.

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Scan2PDF v1.7

Checker on 1 May 2014
  • 1MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on
  • Suggested by Andrew Lee

Scan2PDF helps you scan paper documents directly into PDF files. It has a non-interactive option so that you can bypass the scanner driver interface during scanning. In addition, you can change the order of scanned images, as well as rotate and delete them.

Category:
Runs on:Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: No
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch Scan2PDF.exe.
Latest comments
Mitko K. on 2008-10-20 06:42

Pretty good soft!
You may like PDFSaM too!
Also Portable

bazooty on 2009-01-22 12:14

IrfanView does a better job and produces much smaller pdfs.

aburns on 2014-05-01 15:46

Seems to be an old program, but does a wonderful job and was exactly what I needed.

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STP (Scan to PDF) v1.26

webfork on 12 May 2015
  • 244KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on
  • Suggested by Alex

STP (Scan to PDF) lets you convert paper documents into PDF files. Functions include creating JPEG files from scanned images, PDF creation from separate JPEG files, preview with basic image editing functions (rotate, crop), external preview and editing, variable compression/quality of PDF pages, etc.

Note: The website for this program appears to have been hijacked. Download link has been changed to Softpedia.

Category:
Runs on:Win2K / WinXP / Vista
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: No
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch stp.exe.
What's new? V1.26 (10/05/2010)

+ Improved rotate procedure
+ Can specify output folder
! Minor bugfixes
Latest comments
joby_toss on 2010-12-31 21:12

I get the best pdf scan output using IrfanView: smallest pdf file size and highest font quality (no OCR, obviously).
What is your experience?

Emka on 2011-12-24 21:01

It seems you have to complete a survey or download games before you can download the application...:-(

Emka on 2011-12-24 21:01

According to the screenshots, at least v1.5 is out.

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BtoPDF v0.85

webfork on 12 May 2015
  • 288KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on
  • Suggested by I am Baas

BtoPDF tool will convert BMP and JPG image to PDF as well as the reverse: PDF to JPG/BMP. Support for Drag & Drop operation available.

Category:
Runs on:Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: No
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch BtoPDF.exe.
Latest comments
Rekrul on 2011-01-16 05:52

Downloaded this to try exporting the pages of a PDF file to image files. It didn't work at all, just returned an unhelpful "failure" message.

RecRedDot on 2012-04-06 15:54

The "About PtoBMP" window says it will extract BMP/JPG from PDF files 'created by BtoPDF' (ONLY!!!); this should be clearly described in Synopsys to avoid frustracting loss of time attempting extraction of JPG from PDF files not created with this utility.

juvera on 2014-12-27 01:14

Disappointing, this app does not extract jpg images from pdf files.
But this one does: http://tcpdiag.dl.sourceforge.net/project/pdftojpg/pdftojpg/pdf_to_jpg_1a/PDF_to_JPG_exe.zip
It is a command line application (therefore it does not qualify according to portablefreeware) very easy to use (just pass the name of the pdf file as an argument, and all the images are extracted in a folder created and located in the folder where you launch the app). From what I have tested, the images are extracted with their original resolution.

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