MakeACopy: Scan & OCR

MakeACopy is an open-source document scanner for Android that lets you digitize paper documents fully offline — with on-device OCR, no ads, and no tracking.

Your scans, text, and data stay 100 % on your device.

Main features

• 📸 Camera scanning — Capture documents with your device camera

• 🖼️ Edge detection — Automatic document boundary detection using OpenCV

• 📐 Perspective correction — Adjust document shape automatically or manually

• 🔠 Offline OCR — Recognize text on-device using PaddleOCR in the published paddle flavor

• 📄 Searchable PDF export — Save as searchable PDF or plain text

• 💾 Share & save — Export locally or share with other apps

• 🌙 Dark mode — Material 3 theme with light and dark appearance

• 🔒 Privacy-first — No ads, no tracking, no cloud — everything stays local

Open source & reproducible

MakeACopy is F-Droid compliant. All OpenCV native libraries are built from source during the build process — no prebuilt binaries, no hidden dependencies.

The F-Droid and Google Play listings provide the paddle flavor with PaddleOCR. The standard flavor with Tesseract remains available through GitHub Releases for users who still need Tesseract language data or workflows.

Every component is open source and respects your privacy.

License: Apache License 2.0