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FairScan – PDF Scanner

Scan a document and get a clean PDF you can save or share instantly.

  • Completely free
  • Android
  • Open source
  • No account

Overview

FairScan – PDF Scanner is a document scanning mobile app, available on Android.

Features described in its F-Droid listing: text recognition (OCR).

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information
  • “An Android app to scan your documents — simple and respectful” — GitHub, 10 November 2026
  • “Internet: used only for optional OCR language downloads” — F-Droid, 10 November 2026

At a glance

FairScan – PDF Scanner is completely free: it is open source software, and every feature is available without paying or subscribing.

Its licence (GPL-3.0) is a copyleft open source licence: you may use, study, modify and redistribute it, including commercially; modified versions must keep the same licence.

Plans and conditions

  • Watermark depends on the plan chosen (see the official pricing page).

Strengths

  • Open source code
  • No account needed
  • No advertising
  • Commercial use allowed

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from Official plan pages (pricing, licence, terms) (watermark, limits, commercial use) —
  • Facts collected from GitHub (credit card, account, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use) —
  • Facts collected from F-Droid (credit card, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, ads, commercial use, version) —
  • Last technical check: 6 November 2026
  • Description from F-Droid — F-Droid (citation courte)

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