FairScan
Android document scanner offering multi-page PDF creation, automatic detection, image enhancement, and distraction-free interface, all open-source. No ads, cloud, watermarks, or tracking—scans remain on your device. Minimal permissions ensure privacy and transparency.
Features
- Ad-free
- Mobile Scanner
- Scan documents
- Export to PDF
- Scan to PDF
- Scanner
FairScan News & Activities
Recent activities
Fla added FairScan as alternative to Open Scanner, NAPS2, Simple Scan • Quick Scanner and Notebloc
FairScan information
Developed by
pynicolasLicensing
Open Source (GPL-3.0) and Free product.Alternatives
17 alternatives listedSupported Languages
- English
- Chinese
- Portuguese
- French
- German
- Russian
- Italian
- Spanish
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Office & Productivity, Photos & GraphicsGitHub repository
- 416 Stars
- 28 Forks
- 29 Open Issues
- Updated
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What is FairScan?
FairScan is a simple and respectful document scanner. Create clean, readable PDF scans — without ads, tracking, or hidden limits.
Simple With FairScan, you get a clean PDF in just a few seconds: – Easy process: 1. scan, 2. preview, 3. save or share – Clear, distraction-free interface – Automatic document detection, crop, and enhancement
Respectful FairScan was built to serve its users, not a business. – Privacy: your scans stay on your device. 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. – Minimal permissions: camera only (and shared storage on older Android versions).
Features: – Multi-page PDF creation – Automatic document detection – Automatic image enhancement – Works fully offline – No ads, no trackers, no cloud
Comments and Reviews
Simple, lightweight open-source document scanner for your phone. Outputs choice of either .pdf or .jpg. Doesn't have any image enhancements like Drive's scanner, for better and for worse.