MakeACopy
The facts below are what the maker publishes about MakeACopy, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From MakeACopy's own pricing page, checked 11 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Free and open source | Free | — |
The facts
Each one read from MakeACopy's own pages, with the date it was checked.
Where it runs
- Android app
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
- iOS app
- Nochecked 22 Sep 2026
What it does
- Compatibility
- The F-Droid listing says Android 10 or newer is required.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Distribution
- The PaddleOCR flavor is published on F-Droid and Google Play; the Tesseract flavor and Light edition are available through GitHub Releases.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Document workflows
- Inbox Mode saves scans to a predefined folder for workflows involving paperless-ngx, Nextcloud, or Syncthing.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Editions and size
- The Full edition includes 23 OCR languages and is listed at about 99 MB for arm64-v8a, while Light includes English and German and is about 58 MB.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Intended users
- The project describes MakeACopy as suited to users seeking privacy-friendly document workflows with local processing and self-hosted storage.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Multipage PDF
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
- OCR
- The published PaddleOCR version runs OCR offline and supports language groups covering English, Latin-script languages, Chinese, Russian, Thai, Arabic, Hindi, and Greek.checked 11 Oct 2026
- OCR included
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
- Offline privacy
- The project says the app works fully offline without cloud services, telemetry, tracking, or third-party API dependencies.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- MakeACopy is an open-source Android document scanner that digitizes paper documents with offline OCR.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Review tools
- OCR results can be reviewed and corrected with word-level editing, dictionary suggestions, confidence highlighting, and re-OCR for individual words.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Scanning and export
- It supports camera scanning, automatic edge detection, perspective correction, searchable PDF export, and JPEG export.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Searchable PDF
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
- Security support
- The security policy asks users to report vulnerabilities privately and says it aims to acknowledge reports within 3–5 business days.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Security verification
- The project says official releases are signed and provides APK signature verification details and signing certificate fingerprints.checked 11 Oct 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
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