FairScan – PDF Scanner & OCR

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