OpenScan
Ethereal Developers Productivity
Document Scanner. No ads. Open source.
- Rating
- 3.6
- 585 ratings
- Downloads
- 86.7K+
- on Google Play
- Price
- Free
- No in-app purchases
- Updated
- Oct 17
- 2026 · v3.1.0
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About OpenScan
Scan documents into a PDF or a bunch of images and share it with your contacts.
Our open source document scanner app will enable you to scan anything (official documents, notes, photos, business cards, etc.) and convert it into a PDF file and save to your device or share it directly via any messaging app.
Why use this app? Sometimes, you require to scan several documents and share them in this fast paced professional world. Maybe, you want to scan and store your receipts and billing information for filing taxes. In this day and age, we look for not only easy of use in technology, but also apps which respect our data privacy and apps which doesn't force ads on our screen every other second.
We bring you OpenScan, an app which respects your privacy coupled with comprehensive and beautiful user interface and a flawless user experience.
We differentiate our self from the rest of the apps in the market by:
- Open Sourcing our app
- Respecting your data privacy (by not collecting any document data knowingly)
KEY FEATURES
* Scan your documents, notes, business cards.
* Simple and powerful cropping features.
* Share as PDF/JPGs.
* PDF compression options
WORK PRODUCTIVITY:
- Increase your office/work productivity by scanning and saving your documents or notes quickly and share them with anyone.
- Capture your ideas or flowcharts that you jot down hurriedly and upload them to your choice of cloud storage instantly.
- Never forget anyone's contact information by scanning the business cards and storing them.
- Scan printed documents and save them to be reviewed later or send them to your contacts to review it.
- Never worry when it comes to receipts anymore. Just scan the receipts and save them to your device and share them whenever necessary.
EDUCATIONAL PRODUCTIVITY
- Scan all your handwritten notes and share them instantly to your friends during stressful exam times.
- Never miss another lecture notes. All documents are timestamped, so just look up the date or time of the lecture to quickly bring up the lecture notes.
- Take pictures of the whiteboards or the blackboards for future reference and save those as PDFs.
- Upload your class notes to your choice of cloud storage instantly.
Made with ❤️ from India
What’s new
Version 3.1.0 · Updated October 17, 2026
• Sharper scans: pages are captured at the camera's full resolution • New Single mode lets you fix the crop right after each shot; Batch works like before • Turn off live document detection for a plain camera • Auto-capture is now off by default, with a clear on/off switch • Pages shot with the phone sideways are saved upright • Back from the camera keeps your pages • Long documents use far less memory, fixing slowdowns and crashes • Spanish and Chinese translations
User reviews
Please add a feature after scanning that allows you to add multiple files on the same sheet like two sides of an ID card on a same sheet
Does what it should elegantly. KISS.
Thanks for the concise demo, amazing UI and cropping options and epic update. I wasn't expecting that much improvement, thanks again for the hardwork. Can you please add B&W intensity bar(if possible for all filters)? Also, it is very difficult to put the cropping points on corners of image(maybe fixed by allowing d...
Awesome! Works good with all the new features. Thanks for the privacy!!!
No ads. Enough said.
Works as expected, unlike other apps you know it's not stealing data cause it doesn't even need internet permissions.
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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