What is a good alternative Android app to Micro$oft Lens (to scan and concatenate images as pdf)?

Submitted ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨mazzilius_marsti@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

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:

Must sign in to MS account
Must download an additional app: The MS 365 Copilot app. The app still has the tag (Beta) on the Play store fyi…
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.

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bingbongfroggong@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I really like FairScan

It does the thing it sets out to do.

fairscan.org github.com/pynicolas/FairScan

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testaccount372920@piefed.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
OSS Document Scanner works fine for me, can be installed from the F-Droid store.

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BluePea@piefed.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
MakeACopy is pretty good

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- one_old_coder@piefed.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I confirm that’s it’s good and easy to use.
  
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timestatic@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
OSS Document scan is what I mainly use

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bcgm3@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
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.

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kronarbob@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
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.

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Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
There’s a lot of good scanner software, but I’ll mention that Google drive (which is probably already installed on your phone) has a quality document scanner built in. Just click the camera next to the “+” button. You can also make a drive scanner shortcut to go directly on your home screen.

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cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Over on iOS, we can just do that in Notes (the Apple one). Check to see if your notes app has a similar feature.

I think Google has an app for it as well.

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- ClownStatue@piefed.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Don’t have to use Notes. The Files app will do it too, and will save directly to iCloud.
  
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VubDapple@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
TurboScan does this job well.

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jbrains@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Mobile Doc Scanner.

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