FairScan – Simple PDF Scanner

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About this app

FairScan is a simple and respectful document scanner.
Create clean, readable PDF scans — without ads, tracking, or hidden limits.

Simple
With FairScan, you get a clean PDF in just a few seconds:
– Easy flow: scan, review if needed, save or share
– Clear, distraction-free interface
– Automatic document detection, crop, and enhancement

Respectful
FairScan was built to serve its users, not a business.
– Privacy: your scans stay on your device. No cloud, no account, no trackers.
– Focus: no ads, no nagging to upgrade, only what you need.
– Freedom: no watermarks, no page limits, no restrictions on sharing.
– Transparency: open-source code, open to review.
– Minimal permissions: camera only (and shared storage on older Android versions).

Features:
– Multi-page PDF creation
– Automatic document detection
– Automatic image enhancement
– Works fully offline
– No ads, no trackers, no cloud

Ratings and reviews

Simple to use, and files are saved to the device (not to the cloud). It would be nice to be able to tweak the capture - I noticed it tended to cut-off the edges sometimes if the paper wasn't perfectly flat (as happens for mailed items). Another bonus is no ads, which more than makes up for some of its shortcomings.

Awesome, lives up to its name. Thanks for making this and it being free/ad-free! Feels like simple processing presets, such as threshold that makes a document pure black/white, stronger levels to do something similar, but for documents with some color. Basically Normal, Greyscale, B/W. That wouldn't fill the UI up too much and would be a neat addition.

I started using FairScan to photo documents into a pdf. Downloaded from F-Droid. This is simple and very effective-no fluff, just does what it's supposed to do. Selecting the save directory is very helpful (not an option in some others I tried). It's useful to be able to save the pdf then keep adding pages in stages. The automatic document detection is great for automatically cropping-is there a way to toggle that on/off so you could scan pages with text, then a photograph, then text to the pdf?

What’s new

Improved automatic processing of grayscale documents