Software · Photo & graphics

ScanTailor Advanced

Interactive post-processing tool for scanned pages.

Completely free
Linux
Open source
Old edition (2018)

Old edition: the latest known version (v1.0.16) dates from 17 July 2018. It is no longer recommended as current software; the package date does not mean the software is still maintained.

Overview

Old edition: the latest known version (v1.0.16) dates from 2018; it is no longer presented as current software.

Features described in its Flathub listing and in its GitHub repository: text recognition (OCR).

File formats mentioned: PDF and DJVU.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information

“Scanning, optical character recognition, and assembling multi-page documents are out of scope of this project.” — Flathub, 10 November 2026

At a glance

ScanTailor Advanced is completely free: it is open source software, and every feature is available without paying or subscribing.

Its licence (GPL-3.0+) is a copyleft open source licence: you may use, study, modify and redistribute it, including commercially; modified versions must keep the same licence.

Strengths

Open source code
Commercial use allowed

About

ScanTailor is an interactive post-processing tool for scanned pages. It performs operations such as: page splitting, deskewing, adding/removing borders, selecting content ... and others. You give it raw scans, and you get pages ready to be printed or assembled into a PDF or DjVu file. Scanning, optical character recognition, and assembling multi-page documents are out of scope of this project. The ScanTailor version that merges the features of the "ScanTailor Featured" and "ScanTailor Enhanced" versions, brings new ones and fixes.

Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

Sources and checks

Facts collected from Flathub (credit card, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) — 8 November 2026
Last technical check: 7 November 2026
Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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