OSS PDF Document Scanner, OCR

Akylas

About this app

The OSS Document Scanner is a free and Open Source app to transform your mobile device into a powerful document scanner.

SCAN
* Scan your documents or receipts with a fast camera scan.
* Enjoy the automatic edge detection feature allowing you to quickly scan many documents
* Bulk scan documents or book pages
* Import documents from images or even existing PDF
* You can scan to PDF any kind of document: Receipts, IDs, notes, recipes, photos, business cards, whiteboards, books. You can then use and work with the generated PDFs on all your devices, phones, computers, tablets...

ENHANCE
* Improve PDFs quality by applying enhancing filters for color or black & white documents.
* Edit crop
* Reorder pages, merge documents
* Rotate pages
* Change brightness and contrast to create beautiful documents

ORGANIZE
* Create folders with colors for easy access
* Sort documents
* Name documents

EXPORT
* create PDF directly from your mobile device by converting photos, images, other documents, into beautiful and configurable PDFs.
* export and share your documents to PDF or JPEG or PNG with your friends, family, colleagues

SEARCH
* OCR your documents using offline (to be downloaded first) and open source models in many languages.
* Generate searchable PDFs by converting images to text using the powerful OCR models from the Tesseract project.

SECURITY
* Improve the security of your generated PDF by adding a password.

SYNC
* Synchronize your documents, PDFs, Images with your computers, other devices or local folder sync.
* Sync using WebDAV, Google Drive, OneDrive

PRIVACY
* Use a free and Open Source document scanner to protect your privacy

COMMUNITY
* Provide feedback or even help translate the app. You are part of this project and you make help it grow so that everyone can enjoy the best free and open source document scanner

Ratings and reviews

This used to work great, but something changed with the most recent update resulting in the app no longer taking pictures. Pressing the button to take a picture and scan a document does not do anything, it just seems to ignore the on-screen button press. The document edges are detected and outlined on the screen, but the app is no longer capturing the image to a saved file. Update: It's now working again since the last update. Update 2: It is now 6 out of 5 stars.

update: "pdf export settings" first only optiin shown: 'color'. now also 'b/w'. I miss: 'greyscale'. But pdf file of same size?! -- Thanks for this excellent tool! Minor observations: Auto scan kind of breaks the batch-mode. Also is weak to auto-detect document borders for cropping (inefficient batch scan). 'Storage Data' setting only has single fixed option: SDCard. Can't find where my scans are stored: Which folder?

That was an OK scanner app, until it stopped working on my phone (Xperia 1 IV) after an update, couldn't handle phones with multiple lenses. Also why sharing is jpg by default. Whe a document is scanned as opposed to photographed it because I want a printable PDF file with the right adjustments to look good on print.

What’s new

Bug fixes:
- when added documents from sync, add them to the correct "index" based on sort
- when syncing data now delete documents are also deleted from other devices. For now a bit dangerous. But trash feature is coming
- only sync PDF and run OCR when necessary
- make sure camera can capture with highest resolution
- choose camera highest resolution by default
- Translations update