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This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Friday, 24 Apr 2026, Week 17 F-Droid core F-Droid and F-Droid Basic were updated to 2.0-alpha8. We are hard at work fixi...

@diekenbrock @n2o @kuketzblog

Hm, könnte ich nicht auch ein Foto machen und falls gewünscht, die Endung in PDF ändern?

#fairscan

@n2o

Wollte ich auch vorschlagen, tut einfach total gut, was es soll

@kuketzblog

#fairscan

Used #FairScan earlier this week, and it's a wonderful app. Does one thing only and does it well. No tracking, no ads. Recommend.

FairScan - Simple & Respectful Document Scanner for Android
https://fairscan.org/

FairScan - Simple & Respectful Document Scanner for Android

#FairScan a "respectful app" prioritizes users over profit—no dark patterns, minimal tracking, clear permissions and transparent business model. Users should check publisher, permissions, trackers and open‑source status. Read more: https://fairscan.org/blog/a-respectful-app/ 🔍📱 #RespectfulApps #FairTech
What's a respectful app?

FairScan 1.15 and 1.16 improve automatic document detection and edge detection.

These updates make the automatic cropping more reliable across different kinds of documents.

I also wrote a short post about how FairScan turns a detected document into a clean quadrilateral, and why this step is trickier than it looks:

https://fairscan.org/blog/where-to-cut-automatic-document-cropping/

#FairScan #Android #FOSS #ImageProcessing

Where to cut? Automatic document cropping strategies

@Einkunz
#FairScan ist auch im Fediverse vertreten: @pynicolas
Office/Microsoft Lens durch #FairScan ersetzt.
Läuft super. #diday #DIDit #unplugbigtech

Bom app para escanear documentos. Lembra muito o Adbe Scan e a captura do Evernote antes de enshittificarem.

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.fairscan.app/

#FairScan #Android #FDroid

FairScan – PDF Scanner | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

Scan a document and get a clean PDF you can save or share instantly

FairScan 1.14.0 improves brightness handling for color documents, with more consistent results and fewer over-bright or under-exposed scans.

I also published a blog post about a closely related question:
"What's a good scan?"
https://fairscan.org/blog/what-s-a-good-scan/

#FairScan #OpenSource #ImageProcessing

What's a good scan?