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Open Note Scanner

This little application provides a way on scanning handwritten notes and printed documents.

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Cost / License

  • Free
  • Open Source

Application type

Alerts

  • Discontinued

Platforms

  • Android
  • Android Tablet
  • F-Droid
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Discontinued

Not updated in 3 years. Google Play store says not compatible with current OS, and if you download from F-Droid it asks you to direct download another app to use it, which is not on Google Play or F-Droid.

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Features

Properties

  1.  Lightweight

Features

  1.  Scan documents
  2.  Scanner
  3.  Scan to PDF
  4.  Smart auto-align
  5.  Mobile Scanner
  6.  Content Templates
  7.  No registration required
  8.  Works Offline
  9.  Ad-free
  10.  Dark Mode
  11.  OCR

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Comments and Reviews

   
Top Positive Comment
John Fastman
4

I love open source software. But I have to be honest and say that, as delighted as I am that Open Note Scanner exists, it's not up there with the very best just yet. However, it is reasonable and open source enthusiasts might find its weaknesses quite liveable-with.

Compared to CamScanner, just for example, Open Scan Note:

  • has better recognition of what it's looking at (understands it's a document and catches the right shape)
  • produces grainer images of documents it catches under the same lighting conditions
  • produces decent (not excellent) scans in bright environments
  • produces noticably lower-quality scans (e.g. of text) in medium-well lit environments, compared to CamScanner
  • does not stamp the scan with branding, unlike CamScanner and other free apps of this sort
  • has more limited options for combining taken scans into a single .pdf document.

By contrast, CamScan does brand scans you take with it and needs (very) slight assistance in selecting appropriate boundaries for the objects it is asked to scan. But it does allow you to combine several pages into one.

Both apps have a menu from which you can share your document (E.g. to Evernote, Seafile, Tresorit or whatever else you happen to have an account with).

[Edited by JohnFastman, January 13]

omarjokr
Replying to @John Fastman

I totally agree with you, but FYI CamScanner only puts watermarks if you export as a pdf.

Getting7148
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it offers everything needed with no tracking

Guest
0

nice and easy app for saving docs in digital format. a bit heavy 9.2mb for open source app i think. thank you.

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Guest
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Very useful, but you need a black background or it will be hard to detect the edge of the paper

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What is Open Note Scanner?

This little application provides a way on scanning handwritten notes and printed documents. It automatically detects the edge of the paper over a contrasting surface.

If you have a RocketBook Wave notebook or home printed pages, it automatically detects the QR-code printed in the bottom right corner and scans the page immediately.

After the page is detected, it compensates any perspective from the image, adjusting it to a 90 degree top view, and saves it to a folder on the device.

It is also possible to launch the application from any other application that asks for a picture, just make sure that there is no default application associated with this action.

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  •  300 Forks
  •  96 Open Issues
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