I dont scan stuff often but I used Lense. It was annoying before but it did its jobs: I can take pictures of my documents and it automatically cropped out and joined together as a pdf.
I need to scan something today and so try to use Lens. Holy shit it is soooo annoying now:
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Must sign in to MS account
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Must download an additional app: The MS 365 Copilot app. The app still has the tag (Beta) on the Play store fyi…
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It is not easy to choose where you want to save the documents. Now every pdfs default to Documents/Office Lense. .Or maybe we can still choose. Idk i uninstalled the apps after scanning.
I mean, Google Drive can do it. The files go into your Drive storage.
I imagine that’s not your first choice. But it does work.
Other posters have better open source options, I’m sure.
Paperless is the shit. Look it up. Document mess solved, self hosted, the mobile app comes with a scanner and cropping functionality
OSS Document Scanner works fine for me, can be installed from the F-Droid store.
This! Open source, private (doesn’t ever attempt to connect to the internet), simple, no bullshit. Available not only on F-Droid not also on the Play Store and as direct APK download from GitHub:
I really like FairScan
It does the thing it sets out to do.
fdroid link: https://f-droid.org/packages/org.fairscan.app
MakeACopy is pretty good
I confirm that’s it’s good and easy to use.
I have fairscan and OSS docs scanner installed. Fairscan has few parameters, You can choose where to save your PDF in the parameters.
OSS has a lot of parameters.
I find both Ok for my use. They are on f-droid, no account needed.
OSS Document scan is what I mainly use
There’s a lot of good scanner software, but I’ll mention that Google drive (which is probably already installed on your phone) has a quality document scanner built in. Just click the camera next to the “+” button. You can also make a drive scanner shortcut to go directly on your home screen.
Over on iOS, we can just do that in Notes (the Apple one). Check to see if your notes app has a similar feature.
I think Google has an app for it as well.
Don’t have to use Notes. The Files app will do it too, and will save directly to iCloud.
Interesting. I didn’t know — I actually use ScannerPro, which isn’t free (good developer, and Ukrainian though). I just hear a lot of people saying Notes does it.
I’ve used PDFgear Scan for my last handful of documents that needed scanning, and it’s been great. I particularly like their UI for fine-tuning any cropping. The automatic crop is generally fine, but I’m a stickler for clean edges.
TurboScan does this job well.
Mobile Doc Scanner.
