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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[–] hillbicks@feddit.de 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

[–] Atemu@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year 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.

[–] GravitySpoiled@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] antipiratgruppen@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year 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?

[–] GravitySpoiled@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

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

[–] SigmarStern@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year 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.

[–] lemmyreader@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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/

[–] testingtesting123@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 1 year 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

[–] fin@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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

[–] notthebees@reddthat.com 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] nul9o9@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Same here.

[–] GravitySpoiled@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Paperless

[–] rambos@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] rambos@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I feel like you are looking for a mobile app but the responses here haven't caught on to that yet.