A simple command-line application that scans one or more documents and saves them as images (JPEG, PNG, TIFF) and PDFs uses an SDK provided by the Not Another PDF Scanner 2 (NAPS2) developers, the C# language, and the. NET framework. NAPS2 is a free, open source, document-scanning application that allows users to scan, organize, and save documents [1].
NAPS2 supports various scanners and offers optical character recognition (OCR), batch scanning, and easy document editing, all with a simple, user-friendly interface. Although the NAPS2 application and SDK are cross-platform, the drivers and libraries related to the system’s graphical interface vary depending on the operating system. Therefore, the application in this article will be specific to Linux.
However, you can adapt the code to a different environment by making a few simple…