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raptir @lemdro.id

1y ago

Is there a decent open source or otherwise free scanner app?

A lot of them seem to be "free" with an optional subscription.

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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.
- 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.
  
  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

I haven't used them but these are on the izzysoft F-Droid repo:
https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/com.littletrickster.scanner
https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/com.bretahajek.docus
https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/com.ethereal.openscan

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?

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

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

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

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