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I often describe FairScan as simple and respectful. But what does "respectful" really mean when we talk about apps? We live in a world where there’s an app for everything, and we’re constantly pushed to install more. Yet almost no one talks about "respectful apps". A quick search online gives barely a few hundred results. In other words: it’s not even a topic. So let me explain what I mean when I use that word.

How does FairScan work at its core? How does it transform an image captured by the phone's camera into the page of a PDF document that doesn’t just look like a photo? From the user’s point of view, it feels like a single transformation that happens in less than a second. Let’s look at the different steps involved, illustrated with a visual example.

This first post is about the vision behind FairScan: what I'm trying to achieve, and what I'm not aiming for. FairScan is my attempt to build something different: simple (getting a PDF in seconds, without effort) and respectful (no ads, no account, no tricks). It doesn't try to do everything, but it focuses on doing its job well.