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I need help finding an alternative for a tool like Adobe scan to scan documents and make PDFs out of them. I've tried out OpenScan, while it is decent, the scanner doesn't recognize the page boundaries that well, and adding new pages requires quite a few clicks, which makes scanning long documents cumbersome. Any help is appreciated, thanks!

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Another tool is paperless ngx. Although it is a bit more than just a scanner Programm.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

Paperless is not a document scanner. Its purpose is to manage documents after they've been scanned. The only scanning-related thing it does is OCR.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Paperless is not only a document scanner it also indexes them which is awesome

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Does the client app have some advanced scanning capabilities, or what do you mean when you're calling "paperless" a document scanner?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Webapp can do more than the mobile clients https://github.com/paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I recently found out about this and I love it! Used to use paperwork for my scanning and archiving but paperless ngx is so much better.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Simple-scan does scanning to PDF out of the box. Scan in ten pages and you have them saved all in one PDF file. It can rotate pages as well. Installable as package for Ubuntu, Debian and Arch and probably more.

https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/simple-scan/

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

I guess you are looking for an android app? I use Oss Document Scanner, and I am relatively happy with it https://github.com/Akylas/OSS-DocumentScanner

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I think naps2 is a great scanner software. I use it a lot.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago
[–] fin 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Quick search brought me this: https://www.naps2.com/.

There's also "awesome" for this specific topic

https://github.com/ad-si/awesome-scanning

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I use Document Scanner that was preinstalled on popos. Works amazingly well

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Ah you need android scanner. I use nextcloud app, but its not the best