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 downloaded an old version of lens from before the more annoying one drive integrations. I also made it stop auto updating.
To give you the whole picture I tried using several apps and none of them really did it. One of the big issues is I don’t want a fucking PDF I just wanted a photograph of the document.
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
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.
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.
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.
OSS Document scan is what I mainly use
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.
