FairScan is a simple and respectful PDF scanner with no ads, no tracking, and no cloud.

SIMPLE

FairScan focuses on what a PDF scanner should do well.
With FairScan, you get a clean PDF in just a few seconds:
- Easy flow: scan, review if needed, save or share instantly.
- Clear, distraction-free interface.
- Automatic document detection, crop, and image enhancement.
- Chrome and other Android apps can use FairScan to scan documents and receive a PDF instantly.

RESPECTFUL

FairScan was built for its users, not for profit:
- Privacy: your scans stay on your device. All processing is done offline. 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.

MAIN FEATURES

- Multi-page PDF creation
- Fast and automatic document detection and perspective correction
- Automatic shadow reduction and image enhancement
- Text recognition (OCR) and searchable PDF generation
- Choose the folder which one-tap save should use (compatible with cloud storage solutions such as Nextcloud)
- 100% free and open source

TEXT RECOGNITION (OCR)

When you scan documents, the app can recognize text in more than 100 languages (powered by Tesseract technology):
- Create searchable PDFs from scanned documents.
- Search text inside your scanned PDFs.
- Copy recognized text to any other app.

MINIMAL PERMISSIONS

The app requires strictly minimal permissions:
- Camera: to scan documents
- Internet: used only for optional OCR language downloads. Apart from that, the app works completely offline.
- On Android 9 and below: storage (to save PDFs to Downloads)

HOW FAIRSCAN IS MADE

FairScan is a Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) PDF scanner for Android.
The source code is available on GitHub: https://github.com/pynicolas/FairScan

Its goal is not to make a profit, but to provide a simple and respectful solution to a common need.
Learn more about the project and how you can support it on the website: https://fairscan.org/

For questions and support, please send a mail to contact@fairscan.org