Using scanner app: anything against it?

Sprechen Sie Deutsch?

Your app seems to be in German only? AF is an English language forum.

 

The German barcode app URL you linked to in your OP, that's the context. Is this app available in English?

FWIW when I scan barcodes, like for payments, I just use Wechat or Alipay.

 

Any app has potential privacy implications, since Google do not provide a way of denying apps Internet access and so you have to trust the developer at least (or install a firewall app that will block it). And of course if Google Photos gains access to the directory your scans go to then you have to trust Google with your privacy. If the app has any cloud capabilities that increases the degree of trust needed.

With those caveats, our institution suggests students use Microsoft Lens (formerly Office Lens) for scanning coursework such as solutions to problem sheets (or exams, in these days of remote teaching). That's in part because it's cross-platform, but it works well enough, has keystone correction which is nice.

Personally I just photograph receipts and attach the photo to claims - or I did back in the days when I was actually travelling anywhere...

 

i have used camscanner with no issues before. i have it on my phone, but i have not had a reason to use it for a long time. i used to scan certain documents as pdf which came in handy. my note 10+ camera can scan documents but it will not scan it as pdf. but a picture of a document has worked just fine for me of lately without converting it to pdf.

 

it just depends if you wanted them printed or if you needed to email or fax documents to clients or other people. the app made it convenient. it can take a photo of a document and you can shape the photo so that only the document appears and it will crop it so that it will come out in a 8X11 sheet of paper nicely.....pretty cool, but not needed with my current phone as my camera now has something similar built right into the camera.

 

The ability to save directly as a PDF, rather than have to convert a jpeg, is probably the main advantage of such an app for me.