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  • Re: naps2 down?

    From sticks@3:633/280.2 to All on Mon Jul 28 09:30:30 2025
    On 7/27/2025 6:25 PM, T wrote:
    Hi All,

    Anyone else having issues with
    https://www.naps2.com/
    ?

    Hopefully, they are still in business. It is
    an awesome product.

    It's down for everyone

    <https://www.isitdownrightnow.com/naps2.com.html>


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  • From VanguardLH@3:633/280.2 to All on Mon Jul 28 12:50:44 2025
    Keywords: VanguardLH,VLH

    T <T@invalid.invalid> wrote:

    Anyone else having issues with
    https://www.naps2.com/

    https://web.archive.org/web/20250501000000*/www.naps2.com

    They don't have a newer crawl date than July 12, 2025, so not too old.

    I was curious as to what might be the unnamed awesome product. It's
    "NAPS2" scanner software w/OCR. My Canon MFC printer came with scanning software which will save scans (which can be adjoined into one output)
    into PDF files. Like NAPS2, it also does OCR, but I don't know how it
    compares to the OCR in NAPS2. NAPS2 is FOSS (except for its UWP app),
    and has a portable version. NAPS2 OCR is powered by Tesseract OCR; see:

    https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesseract_(software)

    Tesseract OCR works well on standard text, but struggles with complex
    layouts (e.g., tables, charts). Intricate formatting may require lots of
    manual corrections. OCR accuracy depends a lot on the quality of the
    input scans.

    Looks like NAPS2 has a Github project at:

    https://github.com/cyanfish/naps2

    so you could download it from there. It is also available as a UWP from Microsoft's Store:

    https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9n3qq9w0b23q
    (but costs $9.99 from there)

    No mobile app for NAPS2, so no scanning docs by phones or tablets.

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  • From John C.@3:633/280.2 to All on Mon Jul 28 22:37:53 2025
    T wrote:
    Hi All,

    Anyone else having issues with
    https://www.naps2.com/
    ?

    Hopefully, they are still in business. It is
    an awesome product.

    -T

    Might have been some server maintenance. The site just opened for me
    without any problem.

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