OpenScan: Document Scanner is a productivity app developed by Ethereal Developers.
Download Statistics
OpenScan: Document Scanner has been downloaded 87 thousand times. In the last 30 days, the app was downloaded 3.9 thousand times.
User Ratings
OpenScan: Document Scanner is rated 3.63 out of 5 stars. The rating is based on 580 ratings.
App Information
OpenScan: Document Scanner is freely available from Google Play. The APK size is 21.53 MB. The latest APK version available is 3.1.0. The last update was on October 17, 2026.
Technical Requirements
OpenScan: Document Scanner requires Android 7.0+ or higher. The app has a content rating of Everyone. The APK has been available on Google Play since July 2020.
Description by Ethereal Developers(from Google Play)
Open source document scanner app with compression features, selective exports and great cropping features with filters.
Scan documents into a PDF or a bunch of images and share it with your contacts.
Our open source document scanner app will enable you to scan anything (official documents, notes, photos, business cards, etc.) and convert it into a PDF file and save to your device or share it directly via any messaging app.
Why use this app? Sometimes, you require to scan several documents and share them in this fast paced professional world. Maybe, you want to scan and store your receipts and billing information for filing taxes. In this day and age, we look for not only easy of use in technology, but also apps which respect our data privacy and apps which doesn't force ads on our screen every other second.
We bring you OpenScan, an app which respects your privacy coupled with comprehensive and beautiful user interface and a flawless user experience.
We differentiate our self from the rest of the apps in the market by:
- Open Sourcing our app - Respecting your data privacy (by not collecting any document data knowingly)
KEY FEATURES
* Scan your documents, notes, business cards. * Simple and powerful cropping features. * Share as PDF/JPGs. * PDF compression options
WORK PRODUCTIVITY:
- Increase your office/work productivity by scanning and saving your documents or notes quickly and share them with anyone. - Capture your ideas or flowcharts that you jot down hurriedly and upload them to your choice of cloud storage instantly. - Never forget anyone's contact information by scanning the business cards and storing them. - Scan printed documents and save them to be reviewed later or send them to your contacts to review it. - Never worry when it comes to receipts anymore. Just scan the receipts and save them to your device and share them whenever necessary.
EDUCATIONAL PRODUCTIVITY
- Scan all your handwritten notes and share them instantly to your friends during stressful exam times. - Never miss another lecture notes. All documents are timestamped, so just look up the date or time of the lecture to quickly bring up the lecture notes. - Take pictures of the whiteboards or the blackboards for future reference and save those as PDFs. - Upload your class notes to your choice of cloud storage instantly.
Recent changes: • Sharper scans: pages are captured at the camera's full resolution • New Single mode lets you fix the crop right after each shot; Batch works like before • Turn off live document detection for a plain camera • Auto-capture is now off by default, with a clear on/off switch • Pages shot with the phone sideways are saved upright • Back from the camera keeps your pages • Long documents use far less memory, fixing slowdowns and crashes • Spanish and Chinese translations
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Comments on OpenScan: Document Scanner for Android
★★★★☆Satria Manggala Jati “GaLa”· Jan 20, 2026
Focused on privacy, so expect to not have good automation, hence harder to auto crop the documents. Also, one more thing, PDF has no 'paper' size customization. Still, this is good alternative, very clear and simple ui app.
★★★★★Varun Mishra· Mar 22, 2026
It's a great scanner app with open source privacy. Easily scans, and has an option to converts images into PDF.
★★★★☆vashist aujayeb· Jun 16, 2022
This is a decent app for scanning and ease of use. However, a few filters would bring this app among the toppers. As an open source, it's a very good app and deserves easily a rating of 4.3 to 4.4 upon 5. I am looking forward to the developers to bring the filters, if possible. Wouldn't mind paying up if the developers become intuitive and innovative enough, keep up the good work guys. NAMASTE!
★★☆☆☆Olivier THURET· Dec 2, 2025
I love that it has no adds and doesn't ask me to share my phone's gallery content (respects privacy). But it is not as user-friendly as it could and when I scan a document with a logo, it scans ONLY the logo!!! I must recrop it manually. Not acceptable.
★★☆☆☆Tori H· Aug 14, 2022
Update 8/14/22: crashes almost every time I try to scan something. This gets 4 stars for being completely free and open source, with no ads. It's also very easy to use. However, I do have an issue with the app crashing for me when I try to add more pages to a folder than already has about 15 pages. Another suggestion I have is when scanning multiple pages at a time, it would be nice to not have to scroll through and select the same filter every single time you take another picture.
★☆☆☆☆D R E A M Y _ D R A G O N· Sep 8, 2021
Man.the scans are of very low quality.text is all blurred .then what is the use.please improve the quality... If I want just cropping .there are many apps available.! Improve the scan quality.!
★☆☆☆☆Tim Demulder· Dec 30, 2025
Quite a frustrating experience with the app crashing every few scans/operations, the inability to delete certain pictures from a set and pictures not showing up in a series resulting in having to scan the set again. Every time the document list loads, the app has to iterate over the file list again, sometimes reverse sorting on name, sometimes regular order and every time a scanned set loads, the pictures have to be loaded in memory. There's no apparent cashes at work.
★☆☆☆☆Rob Martin· May 13, 2026
Very frustrating app to use Grateful for a free, ad-free scan app, however... I know the developers have designed the app to be minimalist but the lack of settings options on my phone is crazy. CHATGPT gave me many options to use settings including the obligatory Three Dots. Sadly for me there are no three dots visible. Have I inadvertently reduced the app's permissions? I checked permissions and have granted the necessary ones-all to no avail. The three dots are like the Scarlet Pimpernel.
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Frequently asked questions about OpenScan: Document Scanner
Is OpenScan: Document Scanner free?
Yes. OpenScan: Document Scanner is free on Google Play.
Is OpenScan: Document Scanner still available?
Yes. OpenScan: Document Scanner is on Google Play, and the last update we saw was on October 17, 2026.
Does OpenScan: Document Scanner contain ads?
No. Google Play does not list OpenScan: Document Scanner as containing ads.
What Android version does OpenScan: Document Scanner require?
OpenScan: Document Scanner runs on Android 7.0 and higher.
How large is OpenScan: Document Scanner?
OpenScan: Document Scanner is 21.53 MB.
Is OpenScan: Document Scanner suitable for children?
Google Play rates the content of OpenScan: Document Scanner as suitable for everyone.
How many times has OpenScan: Document Scanner been installed?
Google Play lists 50,000+ installs for OpenScan: Document Scanner.
How do people rate OpenScan: Document Scanner?
OpenScan: Document Scanner scores 3.63 out of 5 stars, from 579 ratings on Google Play.
Who made OpenScan: Document Scanner?
OpenScan: Document Scanner was developed by Ethereal Developers. It is listed in the productivity category on Google Play.
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