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FOSS document scanning app for Android? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi, was wondering if anyone knew of an app where you can use your camera to scan documents (like Adobe Scan) which is FOSS.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 4 months ago (2 children)

OSS Document Scanner is great. It's also available in the IzzyOnDroid F-Droid repository: https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/com.akylas.documentscanner

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Wow foss apps are so clean, it blows my mind how one person can do it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Yeah, I love it!

[–] [email protected] 27 points 4 months ago (1 children)

OSS Scanner on F-Droid

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'm not finding it, do you mean Open Note Scanner?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/com.akylas.documentscanner

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Weird, I have the Izzy repo and it doesn't show up.

Thanks for the link!

This is a major issue with F-Droid. I can find this via a browser, but the F-Droid app doesn't show it, even searching by name. It just doesn't exist. It happens all the time, I'm not sure why it doesn't show apps that I know are there.

G-Droid doesn't show it either. :/

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I can find it on Droidify no problem and after reading your comment, I also tried on F-droid app and I can see it there as well. Maybe you don't have it configured properly.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

It comes up if you type "oss" and look down, as "OSS Document Scanner." But if you go past the oss like "oss sc-" it says it can't be found (because you omitted "document"). My bet is this explains why he can't find it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

https://github.com/pencilresearch/OpenScanner I have not used it. But saw it on alternativeto recently.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Looks like that's for iOS?

Edit: Which is a cool find too, since I also have iOS devices.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

There is one called OpenScan that's available for Android

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

woops sorry quite honestly I did see the iOS logo but because its on github its my first time seeing a project thats iOS only, with no android alternative thats also open source. Thought they also had a branch for android.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Open Note Scanner?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Thanks, just checked it out and this seems good for my purposes.

If anyone else wants a link: https://github.com/allgood/OpenNoteScanner

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

👍

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I've been using docus (izzys fdroid repo) for some time and can recommend it.

Edit: it seems it's no longer being maintained.