MakeACopy: Scan & OCR
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About this app
MakeACopy is an open-source document scanner for Android that lets you digitize paper documents fully offline — with on-device OCR, no ads, and no tracking.
Your scans, text, and data stay 100 % on your device.
Main features
• 📸 Camera scanning – Capture documents with your device camera
• 🖼️ Edge detection – Automatic document boundary detection using OpenCV
• 📐 Perspective correction – Adjust document shape automatically or manually
• 🔠 Offline OCR – Recognize text on-device using the open-source Tesseract engine
• 📄 Searchable PDF export – Save as searchable PDF or plain text
• 💾 Share & save – Export locally or share with other apps
• 🌙 Dark mode – Material 3 theme with light and dark appearance
• 🔒 Privacy-first – No ads, no tracking, no cloud — everything stays local
Open source & reproducible
MakeACopy is F-Droid compliant. All OpenCV native libraries are built from source during the build process — no prebuilt binaries, no hidden dependencies.
Every component is open source and respects your privacy.
License: Apache License 2.0
Your scans, text, and data stay 100 % on your device.
Main features
• 📸 Camera scanning – Capture documents with your device camera
• 🖼️ Edge detection – Automatic document boundary detection using OpenCV
• 📐 Perspective correction – Adjust document shape automatically or manually
• 🔠 Offline OCR – Recognize text on-device using the open-source Tesseract engine
• 📄 Searchable PDF export – Save as searchable PDF or plain text
• 💾 Share & save – Export locally or share with other apps
• 🌙 Dark mode – Material 3 theme with light and dark appearance
• 🔒 Privacy-first – No ads, no tracking, no cloud — everything stays local
Open source & reproducible
MakeACopy is F-Droid compliant. All OpenCV native libraries are built from source during the build process — no prebuilt binaries, no hidden dependencies.
Every component is open source and respects your privacy.
License: Apache License 2.0
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What’s new
MakeACopy 4.0.0
* New OCR engine: PaddleOCR v5 (paddle flavor) alongside Tesseract — test builds are available on GitHub before the planned F-Droid/Playstore rollout
* Improved ONNX Runtime compatibility on Android by disabling SVE-specific builds
* Improved crop-to-OCR workflow by avoiding aggressive post-crop border trimming before OCR review
* New OCR engine: PaddleOCR v5 (paddle flavor) alongside Tesseract — test builds are available on GitHub before the planned F-Droid/Playstore rollout
* Improved ONNX Runtime compatibility on Android by disabling SVE-specific builds
* Improved crop-to-OCR workflow by avoiding aggressive post-crop border trimming before OCR review
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About the developer
CHRISTIAN WILHELM MATHIAS KIERDORF
christian.kierdorf@schliweb.de
Germany
