Niklas RosenqvistDec 23
Jeff Fortin T. (風の庭園のNekohayo)

For years I have been hoping for a FLOSS alternative to "Adobe Scan", the Android app to scan receipts (essentially) with automatic cropping + deskewing + cleanups + OCR, and there was nothing similar I could find in F-Droid… until three months ago, where #FairScan just materialized out of the blue, and I discovered it today: https://www.fairscan.org

Your turn, #LinuxMobile, time to make #GNOME's "Simple Scan" application "camera-ready" 😉 https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/simple-scan/-/issues/344

FairScan - Simple & Respectful Document Scanner for Android

Dec 23 at 1:41amTuba
Show threadJeff Fortin T. (風の庭園のNekohayo)Jan 2
Follow-up: the author of FairScan, @pynicolas, has now joined the fediverse! Bienvenue! Feel free to follow them, too 😎
Show threadPierre-Yves NicolasJan 2
@nekohayo Thank you!
Show threadDavid PrietoDec 23
@nekohayo does it do OCR?
Show threadJeff Fortin T. (風の庭園のNekohayo)Dec 23
@frandavid100 Not yet, there is a ticket open about it by the app's author on the GitHub repo, https://github.com/pynicolas/FairScan/issues/27, so I expect it is next on the roadmap… basically plug Tesseract OCR and voilà!
New feature: run OCR and embed text in the generated PDF · Issue #27 · pynicolas/FairScan

That would use an OCR library such as Tesseract.

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Show threadMax - Poliverso 🇪🇺🇮🇹Dec 23

@nekohayo

Just tried and it really looks good.

Thanks.

The only limitation is that it only makes black and white scans.

Show threadJeff Fortin T. (風の庭園のNekohayo)Dec 23
@max It can do color, it is just automatic, if it misdetected your color document you can email samples to the author so they can improve the heuristic
Show threadMax - Poliverso 🇪🇺🇮🇹Dec 23
@nekohayo thanks
Show threadschuelermineDec 23
@nekohayo I've previously been using https://github.com/Akylas/OSS-DocumentScanner?tab=readme-ov-file, is there something wrong with that one?
GitHub - Akylas/OSS-DocumentScanner: Document scanning app

Document scanning app . Contribute to Akylas/OSS-DocumentScanner development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Show threadJeff Fortin T. (風の庭園のNekohayo)Dec 23

@anselmschueler …that it was not on F-Droid, therefore undiscoverable / "did not exist" 

Tried it out now, interesting app, lots of features, seems like a good alternative too.

If I were to find "something wrong" with "OSS Document Scanner", it would be that it is MIT-licensed instead of GPL, which allows anyone to turn it into a proprietary version AFAIK.

Show threadluna the doggie  Dec 23
@nekohayo ooh this looks like a potential alternative to Microsoft Lens
Show threadDr. Quadragon ❌Dec 23

@nekohayo deskewing and autocrop in Gnome's scan app wpuld be nice.

ScanTailor exists, but it ain't a Gnome app.

Show threadJeff Fortin T. (風の庭園のNekohayo)Dec 23

@drq We've got a ticket for that™!
Specifically for the autocrop part: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/simple-scan/-/issues/56
Deskewing: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/simple-scan/-/issues/6

I would really love to see someone contribute that someday, it would be useful both for the ponies-on-rainbows "Linux mobile" scanning scenario and for the traditional flatbed/ADF scanner scenario!

Object recognition (automatic cropping) (#56) · Issues · GNOME / Document Scanner · GitLab

This is to ask for help to address a shortcoming that I want to improve, rather than reporting a serious problem. When one crops the images...

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