Is there a decent open source or otherwise free scanner app?

A lot of them seem to be "free" with an optional subscription.

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reattach@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y (4 replies)

Like for making PDFs of physical documents? It's not open source, but the Google Drive app can scan documents. It works fine, in my experience.

raptir@lemdro.id · 3 pts · 2y (3 replies)

Yeah, Drive is one option but I'm hoping for something where I can just save PDFs to the device or share directly rather than saving to Drive.

dewritoninja@pawb.social · 6 pts · 2y (2 replies)

I know its not foss and Microsoft is the devil but Office lens let's you save to the device directly in a lot of formats like pdf, word or as pictures

otter@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Also evil, but the Adobe scanner does similar

WhoDestroysTheGond@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 2y

Not sure if evil or not, but Dropbox also has a nice scanning feature. It goes to the cloud, but you can download the PDFs after creating them. And there is a free tier.

ijeff@lemdro.id · 2 pts · 2y
Achyu@lemmy.sdf.org · 1 pts · 2y

I currently use Notebloc. It's not opesource and has ads. But it's decent.

Echo5@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

I don’t know if the grapheneOS camera lets you scan anything (phone lost charge) but it might since it also has a QR code scanner option. Have you searched Fdroid?

WTF@feddit.ch · 1 pts · 2y

Use Clear Scan with internet permission blocked or removed. Nothing will trouble you further.

TheMadnessKing@lemdro.id · 1 pts · 2y