Scan paper documents into searchable PDFs using a low-end Android phone.
Extract and copy text from scanned documents using offline OCR.
Merge or compress multiple scanned PDFs into a smaller combined file.
| necaifia/wathiq | abhishek-kumar09/mini_project1 | arsalankaleem/aestimo | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stars | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Language | Dart | Dart | Dart |
| Last pushed | — | 2020-01-30 | — |
| Maintenance | — | Dormant | — |
| Setup difficulty | easy | moderate | — |
| Complexity | 2/5 | 1/5 | — |
| Audience | general | vibe coder | general |
Figures from each repo's GitHub metadata at analysis time.
Requires downloading the APK matching your phone's CPU architecture and a brief internet connection on the first scan.
Wathiq is a mobile app for Android that scans paper documents with your phone's camera and turns them into searchable PDF files. Its main focus is running smoothly on older, lower-end phones that only have 2GB of memory or less, a group of devices most modern scanning apps struggle to support well. Many popular scanning apps are large downloads, use a lot of memory while running, and need an internet connection to read text out of scanned images, a process called OCR, short for optical character recognition. Wathiq addresses each of these problems directly. It writes scanned pages to the phone's storage in small pieces as it goes, rather than holding entire images in memory at once, which avoids the crashes that happen when a phone runs out of available memory. The app itself was also trimmed down from an original size of 42 megabytes to under 17 megabytes, making it faster to download on a limited data plan. The app pays particular attention to Arabic text, correcting a common visual bug where certain Arabic letters get their dots or shapes cut off due to tight spacing in the display. Finished PDF files are saved to the phone's public Downloads folder so they show up immediately in any file manager or PDF reader app. Once installed, text recognition works entirely offline after an initial one-time download of a small language pack, which requires internet access only on the very first scan. On phones that lack Google's services, such as some newer Huawei devices, scanning and file compression still work, but the text recognition feature will not be available. Beyond basic scanning, the app can merge multiple scanned documents into one PDF, compress PDFs to reduce their file size, extract recognized text with a single tap, and convert existing photos from the gallery into PDF files. This project uses a proprietary license, meaning all rights are reserved by the developer and it is not open for reuse or modification by others.
An Android document scanner app that turns camera photos into searchable PDFs, built to run smoothly and mostly offline on low-memory phones.
Mainly Dart. The stack also includes Dart, Flutter, Android.
Proprietary, all rights reserved, the code cannot be reused, modified, or redistributed without permission.
Setup difficulty is rated easy, with roughly 5min to a first successful run.
Mainly general.
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