[draugadrotten]

Recommendation: https://www.quickscanapp.com/

I am using iPhone as a scanner and it automatically scans, OCRs, uploads and ingests to the paperless-ngx instance, even remotely using tailscale.

The iPhone camera is more than good enough for scanning documents.

[matrss]

I don't have an iPhone, but on Android there is the "Paperless Mobile" app (https://github.com/astubenbord/paperless-mobile), which can be used to scan as well. There are just some documents that I would prefer to have in proper and consistent "document scanner"-quality; I am always having a hard time with lighting using those phone scanners (although Paperless Mobile is one of the better ones I have used).

[westurner]

Would a document capture camera with a [ring] light also work?

[matrss]

Those still have the speed disadvantage of a phone camera and need more space than a compact document scanner, I'd imagine. I guess a ring light for my phone would be an improvement; using the builtin flash usually leads to very uneven lighting in the scan.

[westurner]

IIRC there are certain models of sheet-fed duplex scanners that work with Linux (with e.g. a lower-wattage Pi)

[bretto13]

I had used this app prior to the addition of the Paperless-ngx integration and it worked well, but with that functionality added it's just so easy to scan and be done. I have a Brother scanner as well that I'll still use to import longer documents or anything I want in the best quality, but for 95% of things importing from this app works perfectly.

[deanc]

Thank you also for the tip on this one. Took a bit of work to get it working with my setup but have it working flawlessly.

[bovermyer]

Thank you for this! This reduces the friction for scanning documents a _ton_.

I love that it integrates with Paperless so well!