Pierre-Yves Nicolas

RE: @jhpot@mastodon.social

Nice surprise to see FairScan featured by WIRED.

FairScan 1.14.0 improves brightness handling for color documents, with more consistent results and fewer over-bright or under-exposed scans.

I also published a blog post about a closely related question:
"What's a good scan?"
https://fairscan.org/blog/what-s-a-good-scan/

#FairScan #OpenSource #ImageProcessing

FairScan had a few releases over the past weeks.

1.12.0 focused on the camera screen experience:
- smoother document detection
- tap-to-focus
- flashlight state preserved

A quick 1.12.1 bugfix followed and added a Turkish translation.

1.13.0 improves the export screen:
- clearer layout and better feedback
- more reliable export handling
It also streamlines the scanning flow.

#FairScan is available on #FDroid and the Play Store.

FairScan 1.11.0 is out.

It includes:
- a new setting to control export quality
- a new way to report issues with the last captured image

I've also published a short post about the second point: how FairScan can be improved by letting users choose to share scans that don't look good.

https://fairscan.org/blog/learning-from-failed-scans/

#FairScan #FOSS

Je serai présent aux Rencontres Hivernales du Libre le 24 janvier à Saint-Cergue (Suisse).

J'y vais comme bénévole de l'APRIL (@aprilorg@pouet.april.org), pas pour présenter FairScan. Je devrais être disponible pour discuter sur place.

#rhl26

@daniel@gultsch.social
Yes, the calling app has to explicitly support the intent.

At the moment, it probably makes more sense for apps that already work with documents or PDFs, rather than messaging apps. In most cases, scanning is still a separate step before sharing.

That said, the intent is there if some apps find it useful in the future.

@gnemmi@mastodon.sdf.org

New blog post: FairScan can now be called from other apps

FairScan now exposes a simple intent so other Android apps can trigger a scan-to-PDF flow.

Users of ODKCollect and KoboCollect apps can already use it.

https://fairscan.org/blog/fairscan-can-now-be-called-from-other-apps/

#Android #FairScan

Hello Mastodon 👋

I'm an independent software engineer working on FairScan, an open source document scanner for Android.

I write occasionally about both the human and technical sides of the project, including image processing, datasets, and what "respectful software" can mean in practice. I try to keep these posts short and readable, focusing on the problems I face and how I approach them.

All posts are here:
https://fairscan.org/blog/

#FairScan #OpenSource