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.
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Features
Properties
- Lightweight
- Privacy focused
Features
- No Tracking
- Ad-free
- Mobile Scanner
- Works Offline
- Scan documents
- Export to PDF
- Scan to PDF
- Scanner
- Convert images to PDF
- Create PDF files
FairScan News & Activities
Recent activities
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- Danilo_Venom updated FairScan
enigit added FairScan as alternative to DocuMaster
FairScan information
Developed by
Pierre-Yves Nicolas Licensing
Open Source (GPL-3.0) and Free product.Rating
Average rating of 4Alternatives
23 alternatives listedSupported Languages
- English
- Chinese
- Portuguese
- French
- German
- Russian
- Italian
- Spanish
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What is FairScan?
FairScan is a document scanning app that converts physical documents into PDF files. Users scan the document, preview the image, and save or share the PDF. The app automatically detects, crops, and enhances documents, producing high-quality PDFs quickly. FairScan prioritizes privacy, keeping scans on the user's device without the need for cloud storage or account creation. It's ad-free and doesn't prompt for upgrades. There are no watermarks, page limits, or sharing restrictions. The open-source code is available for review. The app only requires camera access (and shared storage on older Android versions). Features include multi-page PDF creation, automatic document detection, and image enhancement. It works offline, without ads, trackers, or cloud storage.
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.
Buggy. I like the open-source, offline nature, KISS nature. But it is just not to the level of OSS Document Scanner yet.
I tried "scanning" multiple documents, and it would often crop it unexpectedly, and doesn't provide the nice whitepaper corrections.