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What is a good FOSS Android app to scan documents and immediately convert them to pdfs? On Microsoft Lens, you can take multiple scans and also merge different ones together to create a combined PDF. Thanks.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

I use this on a daily basis on Android, works pretty well & is available through Fdroid:

https://github.com/LittleTrickster/PDF-Doc-Scan

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

https://alternativeto.net/software/office-lens/?license=opensource

Looks like there may be a few more, haven't used any of them though.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Lens is the one thing I still use from Microsoft. None of the competition works nearly as well for b&w/greyscale plus angle correction and multiple PDF pages.

On top of that it is completely local, doesn't make you sign into an account, doesn't ask for location access, and doesn't phone home (at least what I have been able to see).

The only thing that Microsoft makes that I will choose over open source alternatives. Knock on wood that they don't change it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Save the APK

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Have you tried Google stacks?

It's quite solid, but I've not used lens to compare it to.

Obviously the privacy is no better, but it exists.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

And it (OpenScan) was never on par with Lens, at the best of times. I hate MS with a long-burning passion, but Lens was best in class. Nothing matched its whiteboard scanning; it was absolutely indispensable, in the pre-COVID times.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I use OpenScan and it works pretty well. You can also check out alternativeto.net

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I haven't come across a FOSS scanner app that comes close to the performance abd features of the popular closed source ones. That's why I use closed source ones that still work when I deny them internet access. Genius Scan and Microsoft Lens both work that way.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

i don't think this is foss https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.notebloc.app

it has ads, but you can pay one time to remove them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

@Rescuer6394

Not only not the same app but look at that tracker list ...

(Seen longer but still 0/10)