I dont scan stuff often but I used Lense. It was annoying before but it did its jobs: I can take pictures of my documents and it automatically cropped out and joined together as a pdf.
I need to scan something today and so try to use Lens. Holy shit it is soooo annoying now:
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Must sign in to MS account
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Must download an additional app: The MS 365 Copilot app. The app still has the tag (Beta) on the Play store fyi…
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It is not easy to choose where you want to save the documents. Now every pdfs default to Documents/Office Lense. .Or maybe we can still choose. Idk i uninstalled the apps after scanning.
I really like FairScan
It does the thing it sets out to do.
fdroid link: https://f-droid.org/packages/org.fairscan.app
I have fairscan and OSS docs scanner installed. Fairscan has few parameters, You can choose where to save your PDF in the parameters.
OSS has a lot of parameters.
I find both Ok for my use. They are on f-droid, no account needed.
TurboScan does this job well.
I’ve used PDFgear Scan for my last handful of documents that needed scanning, and it’s been great. I particularly like their UI for fine-tuning any cropping. The automatic crop is generally fine, but I’m a stickler for clean edges.
I mean, Google Drive can do it. The files go into your Drive storage.
I imagine that’s not your first choice. But it does work.
Other posters have better open source options, I’m sure.
Paperless is the shit. Look it up. Document mess solved, self hosted, the mobile app comes with a scanner and cropping functionality
I downloaded an old version of lens from before the more annoying one drive integrations. I also made it stop auto updating.
To give you the whole picture I tried using several apps and none of them really did it. One of the big issues is I don’t want a fucking PDF I just wanted a photograph of the document.
Mobile Doc Scanner.
