A comrade said I should look into .apk if I want to scan books. Anyone know what this is?

  • @silent_clash@lemmygrad.ml
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    10 months ago

    I think the easiest/most efficient thing would be to just buy a USB scanner for a pc. I don’t know where you live but around here they are very cheap. As somebody else said, an OCR would recognize the text in the scanned book and encode it into text you can copy/paste in a word processor.

    APK is the file extension for packages to install android apps. Make sure you download from a reputable mirror. There are trojan/virus apks on shady sites.

    Personally I prefer to install android apps from a FOSS only app “store” called F-Droid which tends to be safe, or from the play store if you haven’t de-googled yourself.

    For example, I found this app on F-Droid: Open Note Scanner (Scan documents, handwritten notes or arts) https://f-droid.org/packages/com.todobom.opennotescanner/

    • Makan ☭ CPUSAOP
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      210 months ago

      Now I know what APK actually is. Thank you for that. I know what OCR is, of course. And yeah, I think a USB scanner for a PC would be better at this point. F-Droid, eh? I’ll remember that.