FairScan – PDF Scanner & OCR

FairScan is a simple and respectful PDF scanner with no ads, no tracking, and no built-in cloud. It's 100% free and open source. 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: FairScan doesn't upload or sync your scans. All processing is done offline. No built-in 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 where one-tap save stores your PDF, including folders provided by compatible cloud storage apps (such as Nextcloud or Google Drive) 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 [email protected]