Mastodawn

@jonathan859 Nice article. I had very similar experience a few months ago. My only difference is that I'm running this on Pixel 9A.

In order to give some more tips on what to explore next I'd say add @IzzyOnDroid repo to your f-droid install from apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/

Then some nice and accessible #opensource apps are:
@AntennaPod
#auroraStore as a google play alternative,
#catima - a privacy respecting app for lojalty cards,
@davx5app - contacts / calendar sync from your own server if you wish to slowly stop using google for that,
#fairEmail - nice very accessible email client,
#makeacopy - for scanning paper documents,
#newpipe - for playing youtube / bandcamp / soundcloud content,
#openKeichain - for signing / encrypting your emails with fairEmail,
#rsaf - for connecting to various cloud storage services including your own smb / ftp / webdav servers,
sms import export,
Speak that! if the talkback notification presentation is not enough,
walkers guide - nice navigation app
Ytdlnis - an yt-dlp frontent.

Perhaps there are more but I have browsed my apps list and recommended what I think is essential.

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Feb 19

#Android #App Dokumente scannen - OCR #OpenSource

#MakeACopy

https://f-droid.org/packages/de.schliweb.makeacopy

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Privacy-focused document scanner with OCR and PDF export

Bart Groeneveld Dec 23

I couldn't find a good #floss #scanning app for years. But in just two months, @fdroidorg gained two such apps: #FairScan (incredibly user friendly) and #MakeACopy (if you need #OCR, and also good). 😃

Peter Vágner Nov 24

Yesterday an open-source developer Christian has released life changing update to the privacy respecting #android app called #MakeACopy. The app now features so called #accessibility mode that is enabling #screenReader users to take pictures of the paper documents independently.
Accessibility guide is available on github.
The latest prerelease version provides clear Accessibility guidance phrases with screen readers such as Talkback, Corvus, Jieshuo and others that can handle announcement accessibility event.

I am verry happy about this. We are now getting privacy respecting open-source based screen reader accessible solution that performs very well and is easy to use.

The prerelease version can be downloaded at
github.com/egdels/makeacopy/re…

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Privacy-first Android apps: Let’s Bend, MakeACopy, SambaLite. Reproducible builds, CV/ML, DSP.

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oxytude Nov 23

Cette semaine sur le site : pied à coulisse accessible, édito #ANSSI et l'actu nouvelles techno et #Accessibilité.

#Windows #Narrateur #NVDA #SMReadmate #MakeACopy #NvidiaShield #Spotify #Livreaudio #CarteVitale #AppleSports #Cadence #Braille

https://www.oxytude.org

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Peter Vágner Nov 9

I have just found a nice document scanning app for android that can do automatic edge detection, cropping, multipage scanning, OCR, PDF export and more.
It's called #makeacopy and it's using #tesseract engine to perform the OCR directly on the device with no internet connectivity requirement at all.
The app has almost full #a11y support for screen reader users in the sense that all the controls are clearly labelled and it's easy to navigate.
I can't resist and I have asked the developer if it would be doable to add a screen reader compatible notifications making the automatic edge detection somehow accessible as well.
Now I'd appreciate comments from low vision screen reader users, mobility trainers, people assisting other blind people or others who might be able to tell if my idea is viable and how much you like it?
Here is link to the github issue I have started: github.com/egdels/makeacopy/is…

Thanks for looking into it.

Consider making edge detection accessible for screen reader users · Issue #44 · egdels/makeacopy

Hello , Thanks for such a robust scanning app. Let me tell you a bit of my life story. I think it will help me to better describe my idea. Currently I'm working as a sysadmin for a small local comp...

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F-Droid Nov 7

This week in #FDroid (TWIF) has a WiP title:

* you can't jam #Jami
* easier Latin script for #MakeACopy
* 3rd #ProtonPrivacy app, still not #ProtonMail (may we wait 10 more years for it to be #FLOSS)
* #Google has no issue with apps spying on you, as long as they pay
+ 21 new apps
& 182 updates
- 1 archived
~ 1 downgraded

Get your post Halloween scare: https://f-droid.org/2025/11/06/twif.html

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