Changes in 7.0b1:
- Most NAPS2 code has been rewritten. Things should mostly look the same but under the hood there are many differences.
- Added Mac support
- Supports macOS 10.15 and later
- The Universal download should work for all users. Or you can use the Intel/Apple Silicon downloads for a smaller download/install size if you know which one your Mac has.
- NAPS2 on Mac bundles SANE drivers for USB scanners, allowing supported scanners to be used even on new M1/M2 Macs (which normally wouldn't work without manufacturer-provided drivers)
- Added native Linux support
- Requires Flatpak for installation (https://flatpak.org/setup/)
- Mono is no longer required
- The UI should now feel like a native Linux app
- Much better performance and reliability
- TWAIN support has been reworked
- Some lifecycle-related issues should hopefully be fixed (e.g. only being able to scan once)
- With "Use predefined settings", TWAIN now uses the built-in NAPS2 progress window, which allows multitasking
- TWAIN UI should no longer be visible in console and batch mode
- TWAIN should also now support scanning larger images (e.g. 1200dpi) without out-of-memory issues
- Upgraded Tesseract to 5.2.0 for OCR
- Up to 30% faster OCR performance
- Tesseract is now bundled with the NAPS2 download, so no extra download is required (though you still need to download language data if you don't already have it).
- PDF import and export have been rewritten to leverage Pdfium
- This means better support for importing different kinds of PDFs
- In some cases this means much faster import/export
- Pdfium is bundled with the NAPS2 download so there is no longer an extra download needed to import non-NAPS2 PDFs
- New Crop UI
- Minor tweaks to blank page detection
- Image list tweaks
- Selected images appear with just a blue border
- Spacing has been optimized
- New automatic image correction functionality (work in progress)
- "Document Correction" under the Image menu
- Automatic fixing of color calibration, noise, skew, and other common scanning issues
- Eventually this will be integrated into profiles
- JPEG2000 support for importing/saving images (Mac only for now)
- Dropped support for rarely-used image file formats (.emf, .exif, .gif)
- Please request if you want this back
- NAPS2 on Windows now requires .NET Framework 4.6.2
- This means no more support for Windows XP
- Windows 7 SP1 is now the minimum requirement
- The 64-bit Windows install location is now "Program Files" instead of "Program Files (x86)"
- The MSI installer now has separate 64-bit and 32-bit downloads
- The AppData format for config.xml and Tesseract files has changed (will be automatically migrated)
- Improved icon quality
- Translations have been moved to Crowdin
- Various performance and reliability improvements
- Bug fixes