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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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Platforms

  • Android
  • F-Droid
  • OpenAPK
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Features

Properties

  1.  Lightweight
  2.  Privacy focused

Features

  1.  No Tracking
  2.  Scan documents
  3.  Ad-free
  4.  Export to PDF
  5.  Scan to PDF
  6.  Mobile Scanner
  7.  Works Offline
  8.  OCR
  9.  No registration required
  10.  Scanner
  11.  Convert images to PDF
  12.  Create PDF files

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  • Developed by

    FR flagPierre-Yves Nicolas

  • Licensing

    Open Source (GPL-3.0) and Free product.

  • Rating

    Average rating of 4

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  • Supported Languages

    • English
    • Chinese
    • Portuguese
    • French
    • German
    • Russian
    • Italian
    • Spanish
    • Arabic
    • Galician
    • Hungarian
    • Indonesian
    • Japanese
    • Lithuanian
    • Persian
    • Tamil
    • Czech
    • Turkish
    • Swedish

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GitHub repository

  •  876 Stars
  •  59 Forks
  •  39 Open Issues
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Our users have written 2 comments and reviews about FairScan, and it has gotten 46 likes

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Comments and Reviews

   
Top Positive Comment
NejyCR
1

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.

Sam Lander
1

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.

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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.