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need a decent FOSS document scanner from mobile - output to pdf

oss document not great

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I haven't used this, so I can't say it's good or not, but from a quick look at the GitHub it seems to do what you want but it's not actively maintained it seems

https://github.com/ethereal-developers/OpenScan

had just found this one in @zapstore

https://github.com/littletrickster/pdf-doc-scan

does the trick nicely

is this the type of thing that doesn't get built/maintained because of incentives?

I don't really know. The one built-in to the Dropbox app was perfect (but I ditched them when I moved to grapheneOS). Most of the others just dump high-res jpgs in, and that makes the files huge for just a 4-page document. The one I found (below) works great, though. 4 page document was legible enough at under 1 MB. Which reminds me, I should go zap the dev...