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

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#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 – Freies und quelloffenes 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?

Fairscan + PaperlessNGX (app & server) will soon become my life savers!

kudos to both @pynicolas and the team behind Paperless development! You're doing an amazing job!

#fairScan #paperlessNGX #android #apps #openSource #osDev

The latest releases of #FairScan have a nice feature to facilitate its ethical data-driven software development approach: there is now a built-in convenience action in the About dialog to allow you to email the raw photo of the latest scan to @pynicolas if you encounter examples of situations that cause the autodetection heuristics to fail. I've sent them a few samples today.

Details and instructions here: https://www.fairscan.org/blog/learning-from-failed-scans/

#FLOSS #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #scanning #paperless #Android

Learning from failed scans

FairScan had a few releases over the past weeks.

1.12.0 focused on the camera screen experience:
- smoother document detection
- tap-to-focus
- flashlight state preserved

A quick 1.12.1 bugfix followed and added a Turkish translation.

1.13.0 improves the export screen:
- clearer layout and better feedback
- more reliable export handling
It also streamlines the scanning flow.

#FairScan is available on #FDroid and the Play Store.

Proprio in questi giorni ho avuto bisogno di scannerizzare dei documenti con il telefono e la mia ricerca su #fdroid mi ha portato su #FairScan
Credo sia un'applicazione utile e molto interessante


RE: https://mastodon.social/ap/users/115798797692983811/statuses/115824864505908104

FairScan 1.11.0 is out.

It includes:
- a new setting to control export quality
- a new way to report issues with the last captured image

I've also published a short post about the second point: how FairScan can be improved by letting users choose to share scans that don't look good.

https://fairscan.org/blog/learning-from-failed-scans/

#FairScan #FOSS

Learning from failed scans