

OSS Document Scanner
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The OSS Document Scanner is a free and Open Source app to transform your mobile device into a powerful document scanner.
Features
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- Lightweight
- Privacy focused
Features
- Scan documents
- Export to PDF
- Works Offline
- Mobile Scanner
- No registration required
- Ad-free
- Built-in viewer
- Dark Mode
- OCR
- Screenshot OCR
- WebDAV Sync
- Offline
- Full-Text Search
- Cloud Sync
- Image to text
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What is OSS Document Scanner?
The OSS Document Scanner is a free and Open Source app to transform your mobile device into a powerful document scanner.
SCAN
- Scan your documents or receipts with a fast camera scan.
- Enjoy the automatic edge detection feature allowing you to quickly scan many documents
- Bulk scan documents or book pages
- Import documents from images or even existing PDF
- You can scan to PDF any kind of document: Receipts, IDs, notes, recipes, photos, business cards, whiteboards, books. You can then use and work with the generated PDFs on all your devices, phones, computers, tablets...
ENHANCE
- Improve PDFs quality by applying enhancing filters for color or black & white documents.
- Edit crop
- Reorder pages, merge documents
- Rotate pages
- Change brightness and contrast to create beautiful documents
ORGANIZE
- Create folders with colors for easy access
- Sort documents
- Name documents
EXPORT
- create PDF directly from your mobile device by converting photos, images, other documents, into beautiful and configurable PDFs.
- export and share your documents to PDF or JPEG or PNG with your friends, family, colleagues
SEARCH
- OCR your documents using offline (to be downloaded first) and open source models in many languages.
- Generate searchable PDFs by converting images to text using the powerful OCR models from the Tesseract project.
SECURITY
- Improve the security of your generated PDF by adding a password.
SYNC
- Synchronize your documents, PDFs, Images with your computers, other devices or local folder sync.
- Sync using WebDAV, Google Drive, OneDrive
PRIVACY
- Use a free and Open Source document scanner to protect your privacy
COMMUNITY
- Provide feedback or even help translate the app. You are part of this project and you make help it grow so that everyone can enjoy the best free and open source document scanner










Comments and Reviews
OSS Document Scanner is what I now use as an alternative to CamScanner.
It's a little bit different, and that may be due to my Android operating system (GrapheneOS).
When I try to use the camera in OSS Document scanner, the text is often hard to read and blurry. It doesn't capture well for whatever reason.
So what I do is take the photos on my phone and select them inside OSS Doc Scanner and the filters make it grayscale, remove any text you can see through from the other side, and otherwise cleans it up. It then gives me a 100-200kb jpg or pdf.
CamScanner works well for taking the photo, but the filters it has are actually worse than OSS Scanner. Plus CamScanner is closed-source, Chinese company and has a huge footprint. OSS Scanner is faster and smaller.
I use OSS Doc Scanner as I switch from iOS to Android. The good part is that it is open source and local, which feels safe. While, compared with the TurboScan I used in my previous iPhone, I do feel like the scanning quality of OSS Doc Scanner is not good enough, the docs scanned via camera is usually with low resolution; and the image processing quality of white and coloured documents etc., are not satisfying.
I am the developer. Would you mind opening an issue here https://github.com/ossdocumentscanner/OSS-DocumentScanner/issues. I would love to fix our issues
It allows to scan and de-skew documents, post-process it and export in a certain format, e.g. DIN-A4, as PDF.
An open source alternative to mobile scanner apps like Microsoft Lens, Adobe Scan or CamScanner.
Open Source, with no ads.
Do not worry about my privacy.
This is my alternative to CamScanner. Did fiddle with Microsoft Lens, but that's been deprecated. It works quite well, but I did disable the auto-capture as it got in the way at time.
I started looking for an alternative to CamScanner because it has become a mercenary program. Extremely expensive and full of bait to get you to use the subscription version. In short, a complete piece of electronic junk. If there was a one-time purchase price, I might not have looked for an alternative. But the annual price of CamScanner would be reasonable for a definitive purchase. That is outright robbery.
I haven't used this app fully yet, only tested it. But from my tests, the program meets all your needs for photocopying documents very well. Straightforward and simple! No tricks or deceptive tactics. No ads. A program truly made by someone who loves technology and wants to share a better world. Thank you to the developers.
It just works great