Simple PDF scanner & OCR. Scan documents offline. Clean, fast, and open source.
About FairScan – PDF Scanner & OCR
FairScan – PDF Scanner & OCR is a productivity app developed by fairscan.org.
How many times has FairScan – PDF Scanner & OCR been downloaded?
FairScan – PDF Scanner & OCR has been downloaded 40 thousand times. In the last 30 days, the app was downloaded 4.1 thousand times.
What is the rating of FairScan – PDF Scanner & OCR?
FairScan – PDF Scanner & OCR is rated 4.77 out of 5 stars, based on 240 ratings.
Is FairScan – PDF Scanner & OCR free?
FairScan – PDF Scanner & OCR is free to download. The APK download size is 64.25 MB. The latest version available is 2.0.0. The last update was on June 13, 2026.
What are the requirements for FairScan – PDF Scanner & OCR?
The app has a content rating of Everyone. The app has been available on Google Play September 2025.
Description
FairScan is a simple and respectful PDF scanner with no ads, no tracking, and no cloud.
SIMPLE
Tired of bloated apps? FairScan is a simple PDF scanner that focuses on what you really need. With FairScan, you get a clean PDF in just a few seconds: - Easy flow: scan, review if needed, save or share instantly. - Clear, distraction-free interface. - Automatic document detection, crop, and image enhancement. - Chrome and other Android apps can use FairScan to scan documents and receive a PDF instantly.
RESPECTFUL
FairScan was built for its users, not for profit: - Privacy: your scans stay on your device. All processing is done offline. No cloud, no account, no trackers. - Focus: no ads, no nagging to upgrade, only what you need. - Freedom: no watermarks, no page limits, no restrictions on sharing. - Transparency: open source code, open to review.
MAIN FEATURES
- Multi-page PDF creation - Fast and automatic document detection and perspective correction - Automatic shadow reduction and image enhancement - Text recognition (OCR) and searchable PDF generation - Choose the folder which one-tap save should use (compatible with cloud storage solutions such as Nextcloud) - 100% free and open source
TEXT RECOGNITION (OCR)
When you scan documents, the app can recognize text in more than 100 languages (powered by Tesseract technology): - Create searchable PDFs from scanned documents. - Search text inside your scanned PDFs. - Copy recognized text to any other app.
MINIMAL PERMISSIONS
The app requires strictly minimal permissions: - Camera: to scan documents - Internet: used only for optional OCR language downloads. Apart from that, the app works completely offline. - On Android 9 and below: storage (to save PDFs to Downloads)
HOW FAIRSCAN IS MADE
FairScan is a Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) PDF scanner for Android. The source code is available on GitHub: https://github.com/pynicolas/FairScan
Its goal is not to make a profit, but to provide a simple and respectful solution to a common need. Learn more about the project and how you can support it on the website: https://fairscan.org/
For questions and support, please send a mail to contact@fairscan.org
Recent changes: Version 2.0 adds text recognition (OCR), allowing FairScan to create searchable PDFs.
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Comments on FairScan – PDF Scanner & OCR for Android
★★★★☆Andy Chan· Apr 22, 2026
A nice, quick, minimal scanner, as others have noted. Office lens depreciation led me here. It's nice, but I do wish there was an option to turn off auto processing and just put the raw images into a PDF. Edge detection can be a little wonky sometimes, especially with handwritten documents.
★★★★★A Lim· May 4, 2026
A simple, straight forward scanning app that just works. Good image quality, and fully free with no ads or subscription. It covers the basics well without unnecessary extras.
★★★★★K. H.· Jan 21, 2026
I started using Fair Scan to photo documents into a PDF. Downloaded from F-Droid. This is simple and very effective-no fluff, just does what it's supposed to do. Selecting the save directory is very helpful (not an option in some others I tried). It's useful to be able to save the PDF then keep adding pages in stages. The automatic document detection is great for automatically cropping-is there a way to toggle that on/off, so you could scan pages with text, then a photograph, then text to the PDF?
★☆☆☆☆Jahus· May 14, 2026
You can't define scan borders like with Office Lens.
★☆☆☆☆Manish Bakhada· Jan 4, 2026
Not Impressive App like ither Scan App.
★☆☆☆☆Nagesh Odedra· May 10, 2026
No option to Crop /adjust length width from photo. Automatically takes whatever it likes and crops important parts of image
★☆☆☆☆Cranky Monkey· Oct 7, 2025
Tried the new version from f-droid... tried to process a page of a textbook... "No document detected"... Every time.
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