hpr4702 :: MakeACopy is an open-source document scanner app for Android
Ken creates create searchable pdfs from photos using his android phone
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MakeACopy
MakeACopy is an open-source document scanner app for Android that allows you to digitize paper documents with OCR functionality. The app is designed to be privacy-friendly, working completely offline without any cloud connection or tracking.
Features
- Camera Scanning : Capture documents using the device camera
- Edge Detection : Automatic document edge detection using OpenCV, enhanced with an ONNX model (DocAligner)
- Perspective Correction : Adjust and crop documents with manual or automatic perspective correction
- Image Enhancement : Apply filters (grayscale, contrast, sharpening)
- OCR : Offline text recognition with Tesseract
- OCR Review : Interactive review and correction of OCR results with word-level editing, dictionary-based suggestions, confidence highlighting, and re-OCR for individual words
- PDF Export : Save as searchable PDF with recognized text
- JPEG Export : Export scans as high-quality JPEG images (configurable quality, color/BW)
- Multi-page Scanning : Combine multiple pages into one document; reorder and manage pages before export
- Last Scans : Quickly access and reuse your most recent scans
- Share & Save : Export locally or share with other apps
- Dark Mode : Material 3 theme with day/night support
- Privacy-Focused : 100% offline functionality, no internet connection required
