What is a good FOSS Android app to scan documents and immediately convert them to pdfs? On Microsoft Lens, you can take multiple scans and also merge different ones together to create a combined PDF. Thanks.
I use this on a daily basis on Android, works pretty well & is available through Fdroid:
https://alternativeto.net/software/office-lens/?license=opensource
Looks like there may be a few more, haven’t used any of them though.
Lens is the one thing I still use from Microsoft. None of the competition works nearly as well for b&w/greyscale plus angle correction and multiple PDF pages.
On top of that it is completely local, doesn’t make you sign into an account, doesn’t ask for location access, and doesn’t phone home (at least what I have been able to see).
The only thing that Microsoft makes that I will choose over open source alternatives. Knock on wood that they don’t change it.
I finally found my perfect keyboard. https://www.f-droid.org/packages/rkr.simplekeyboard.inputmethod/
And it (OpenScan) was never on par with Lens, at the best of times. I hate MS with a long-burning passion, but Lens was best in class. Nothing matched its whiteboard scanning; it was absolutely indispensable, in the pre-COVID times.
I use OpenScan and it works pretty well. You can also check out alternativeto.net
