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Is there a decent open source or otherwise free scanner app? (lemdro.id)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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A lot of them seem to be "free" with an optional subscription.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Like for making PDFs of physical documents? It's not open source, but the Google Drive app can scan documents. It works fine, in my experience.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, Drive is one option but I'm hoping for something where I can just save PDFs to the device or share directly rather than saving to Drive.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I know its not foss and Microsoft is the devil but Office lens let's you save to the device directly in a lot of formats like pdf, word or as pictures

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Also evil, but the Adobe scanner does similar

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Not sure if evil or not, but Dropbox also has a nice scanning feature. It goes to the cloud, but you can download the PDFs after creating them. And there is a free tier.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I haven't used them but these are on the izzysoft F-Droid repo:

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I currently use Notebloc. It's not opesource and has ads. But it's decent.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I don’t know if the grapheneOS camera lets you scan anything (phone lost charge) but it might since it also has a QR code scanner option. Have you searched Fdroid?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Use Clear Scan with internet permission blocked or removed. Nothing will trouble you further.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

You may try this: https://github.com/Akylas/com.akylas.documentscanner