A Comparative Study of Different Scanning Applications and Flutter Plugins for the Application Designing



EOI: 10.11242/viva-tech.01.04.003

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Ms. Harshali Malgundkar, Mr. Prathmesh Tirodkar, Ms. Saylee Ghadi , Prof. Ashwini Save , "A Comparative Study of Different Scanning Applications and Flutter Plugins for the Application Designing", VIVA-IJRI Volume 1, Issue 4, Article 3, pp. 1-8, 2021. Published by Computer Engineering Department, VIVA Institute of Technology, Virar, India.

Abstract

Amidst the tense Indo-China border conditions in North-east India coupled with the ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat’ initiative, the IT ministry of India had banned 59 Chinese-owned applications, including Cam Scanner, Tik Tok, ShareIt, etc., and thus was also taken down from the Indian Playstore for sovereignty and security. Among all the banned 59 applications, CamScanner had been an integral part of daily documentation which allowed users from organizational, governmental, commercial, and academic backgrounds to convert the simple camera-clicked images of important documents into scanned PDF format digital documents. But after the ban of CamScanner, users faced a lot of inconveniences to create these despite the introduction of other alternative Indian scanning applications as these applications were less satisfactory in comparison to CamScanner. This paper studies various Indian and non-Indian scanning applications and a comparative study of the various features provided by these applications is done. This paper also focuses on the study of various flutter libraries and plugins that will be required to design the features of the scanning application such as multiple image picking, conversion of images into pdf, firebase ML for optical character recognition feature, etc..

Keywords

Document Edge Detection, Firebase ML Toolkit, Flutter Plugins, Images to PDF, Optical Character Recognition

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