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 the open-source Tesseract engine

• 📄 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.

Every component is open source and respects your privacy.

License: Apache License 2.0