Privacy-friendly and Open Source Document Scanner.
Not recently updated — last update was on 2021-09-21.
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About OpenScan: Document Scanner
OpenScan: Document Scanner is a productivity app developed by Ethereal Developers.
Download Statistics
OpenScan: Document Scanner has been downloaded 75 thousand times. In the last 30 days, the app was downloaded 2.1 thousand times.
User Ratings
OpenScan: Document Scanner is rated 3.95 out of 5 stars. The rating is based on 530 ratings.
App Information
OpenScan: Document Scanner is FREE to download. The APK download size is 17.46 MB. The latest version available is 2.2.1. The last update was on September 21, 2021.
Technical Requirements
OpenScan: Document Scanner requires Android 4.4+ or higher. The app has a content rating of Everyone. The app has been available on Google Play July 2020.
Description
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.
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Comments on OpenScan: Document Scanner for Android
★★★★☆User Droid· Aug 31, 2022
Love the magic color filter effect. Scanning and cropping manually is a bit lengthy process. Would've loved automatic border detection like flat app does.
★★★★☆Lemon Line· Feb 20, 2023
Fantastic open source option to commercial tools with no ads. The tutorial demo at the start is excellent. I just wish filters could be edited and changed afterward, and that the filters had more sliders for intensity and whatnot.
★★★★★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.
★☆☆☆☆Anton Uramer· Oct 13, 2025
Some images don't get saved when quick scanning, even though they appear fine during confirmation. They also don't get cropped during quick scan, at which point I might as well just take pictures with a camera app...
★☆☆☆☆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.
★☆☆☆☆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.
★☆☆☆☆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.!
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