A free scanning program or a graphics editor?

Question

Scanning

Good evening, advise a free scanning program or a graphics editor.
The essence of the problem: you need to scan documents, they have seals, after scanning, sometimes there is a need to print these documents, and sometimes the seal is not visible, you have to process pdfs (we scan to pdf) in Photoshop. We scan with a standard hp program, there are at least settings.
I visited Gimp, but it has problems with pdf, the path to the file must be without Cyrillic.
Ideally, you need a free scanning program in which you can set the contrast level and other settings. But as an option, some free graphic editor may come up.
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

My God, but who saves the scans in PDF! I understand that all sorts of boxed monstrous packages for scanners offer it, but the effectiveness and convenience of this method is extremely low.
In general, the main principle: by and large, there are no special programs “for scanning”.Take any viewer / converter or image editor you like and look for the function of obtaining images from the scanner there (in English it is called “Acquire” or some kind of “Import”, in Russian it is usually just “Scan”, often located in the “File” menu) through standard TWAIN or WIA interface. The dialog for directly managing the scanning process will be the same for your scanner model in all applications. TWAIN drivers along with a small graphical interface are developed by scanner manufacturers, and WIA provides a unified interface (though often less functional than the longer-lived TWAIN) implemented directly in Windows.
To save scanned pages, use the PNG format as the most common and efficient.
Of the free applications, I will recommend, first of all, the viewer-converter-cataloger XnView . To the delight of the scanners, there are batch saving and processing functions. If you've ever seen ACDSee, then this one can actually do even more, except that the image editing functions in it are only the most basic.
Free editors include Paint.NET and Artweaver .

Answer 2

NAPS 2 (Not Another PDF Scanner)
sourceforge.net/projects/naps
helped me out when setting up network printing from Kyocera network MFPs (2035dn in particular)
is extremely simple - the scanning interface starts immediately when the program starts, it can only scan and save. Ideal solution for colleagues who can't get the hang of importing images in PDF24 or FastStone Viewer (or the combines listed in other answers).

Answer 3

GIMP www.gimp.org/downloads/

Answer 4

Try Canon ScanLide (googled as canoscan lide). There is a separate option "document scanning" - very high contrast and output brightness - documents are scanned wow! Peach!
But as the name implies, you may not want to work with something other than Canon.

Answer 5

IrfanView

Answer 6

How can one save to PNG when batch scanning is required mainly to create multi-page documents?