FairScan – Simple PDF Scanner

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About this app

No ads, no tracking, no cloud. FairScan is a simple and respectful app to scan your documents to PDF or JPEG.

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

A nice, quick, minimal scanner, as others have noted. Office lens depreciation led me here. It's nice, but I do wish there was an option to turn off auto processing and just put the raw images into a pdf. Edge detection can be a little wonky sometimes, especially with handwritten documents.

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.

What’s new

- You can now adjust document edges manually.
- Simpler workflow.