CamScanner alternative SelfScan app launched in India

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee has launched a new app called ‘SelfScan’. This new application has been developed by the state’s information technology department and as the name suggests, it is built to scan documents.

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The new SelfScan app by the state government of West Bengal is in response to filling that void.

The features of the app have been listed on Amazon’s application store. It claims that the data always stays in the device and there will be no storing of data by the app on any server.

It also claims that SelfScan does not capture any personal data of the user which includes cookies and other background data collection.

Once installed, the application will not require an internet connection for Scanning documents even for OCR. The scanning is done inside the user’s device without sending it to the server.

According to the description, the app is completely free and comes without adds. The user won’t even need to register in order to use this app.

Considering that no data is sent to the server, the app developers claim that it poses a challenge in improving the scanning ability of handwritten text. However, they do provide assurance that they are working on the feature.

Currently, the app is available in English but the developers claim that they are working on Bengali, Hindi and other regional languages as well.