MakeACopy

Releases

• Sep 24, 2026 4.7.0-light-standard
  MakeACopy 4.7.0 * New: manual dewarping for curved book pages in the crop screen. * New: multi-page workflow – import several PDF pages, batch OCR, memory-friendly export; unfinished documents survive a restart. * New: re-crop any page of a multi-page document from its original photo; a curved-page crop comes back with its curves. * Corner detection: about 9× faster; retrained model is far better with tilted documents. * Fixed: a separate TXT file is only exported when OCR found text; the camera options no longer switch it on. * Fixed (Paddle OCR): long justified lines of body text no longer vanish from the result; the "Best quality" option now really runs the detector at a higher resolution.
• Sep 19, 2026 4.6.2-light-standard
  MakeACopy 4.6.2 * New support for vertical Japanese text: correct detection, reading order and PDF text layer for vertical layouts. * Added Noto Sans JP (Kana subset) font for better Japanese rendering in exported PDFs. * Added support for "Multi-column layout" OCR * Updated build tooling (Gradle 8.14.3). * Bulk-delete scans; cleanup fix. * Faster preview updates for multi-page scans: page bitmaps are now decoded in the background with an instant thumbnail placeholder (fixes slow B/W preview refresh).
• Jul 9, 2026 4.6.1-light-standard
  MakeACopy 4.6.1 * More accurate corner detection in the crop view: corners now stay on the document edges after layout changes. * New edge-snap corner refinement for sharper document boundaries. * Improved black & white conversion: cleaner pages, fewer speckles, better readability of faint text and low-res scans.
• Jun 19, 2026 4.6.0-light-standard
  TEST-BUILD MakeACopy 4.6.0 * Full-text search across your scan library, now including recognized OCR text (Room/FTS5). * Search results are highlighted in the scan list for faster navigation. * OCR text is stored and indexed during export so documents stay searchable. * New experimental PaddleOCR v6 Small recognition model (opt-in) with language-aware routing. * Various stability and performance improvements under the hood.
• Jun 19, 2026 4.5.1-light-standard
  MakeACopy 4.5.1 * Fixed a device-dependent aspect-ratio mismatch: preview, live overlay and the captured image now share the same field of view. * Live document corners align more accurately with the camera preview. * More stable crop screen: corner detection no longer runs twice during layout, keeping the accurate result. * Consistent thumbnails across lists and export (no more cropped previews). * Unified text sizes for a cleaner, more polished UI.
• Jun 14, 2026 4.5.0-light-standard
  MakeACopy 4.5.0 * Material You dynamic colors (Android 12+) and Material 3 dialogs. * Themed (monochrome) launcher icon. * Workflow stepper across Scan, Crop, OCR and Export. * Search in the scan library. * New "Share text" action and export format selector (PDF/JPEG). * Option to skip edge detection, smoother transitions and haptic feedback. * Fixed duplicate dialogs on rapid taps and redundant edge re-detection.
• Jun 11, 2026 4.4.0-light-standard
  MakeACopy 4.4.0 * New camera zoom/lens menu with saved zoom levels. * Improved camera controls and accessibility labels. * Fixed searchable PDF text layer line grouping for more reliable text selection and copy/paste. * Updated translations, OpenCV handling and dependencies.
• May 30, 2026 4.3.0-light-standard
  MakeACopy 4.3.0 * Added Greek OCR support in the PaddleOCR flavor. * Improved searchable PDFs with cleaner copy & paste. * Added PDF text-layer compatibility options. * Fixed CropFragment corners getting stuck outside the image.
• May 24, 2026 4.2.0-light-standard
  MakeACopy 4.2.0 * Redesigned export: Color, Grayscale and B&W for JPEG/PDF. * New cleanup options for crisper scans. * PaddleOCR: optional best-quality mode for better text detection. * More robust PDF creation and OCR tests.
• May 22, 2026 4.1.3-light-standard
  MakeACopy 4.1.3 * Release metadata now distinguishes the F-Droid standard build from the Paddle OCR build more clearly. * The Paddle build keeps the plain 4.1.3 version name to match F-Droid metadata requirements.
• May 20, 2026 4.1.2-light
  MakeACopy 4.1.2 * Improved scan workflow navigation so Camera, Crop, OCR, and Export no longer leave duplicate or stale screens in the back stack. * Returning to the camera from Crop or Export now resets the scan flow cleanly.
• May 17, 2026 4.1.1-light
  MakeACopy 4.1.1 * Published Store listings now use the PaddleOCR flavor; Tesseract standard builds remain on GitHub. * Fixed crop handling so OpenCV fallback rectangles no longer override better document-corner estimates.
• May 13, 2026 4.0.0-light
  MakeACopy 4.0.0 * New OCR engine: PaddleOCR v5 (paddle flavor) alongside Tesseract — test builds are available on GitHub before the planned F-Droid/Playstore rollout * Improved ONNX Runtime compatibility on Android by disabling SVE-specific builds * Improved crop-to-OCR workflow by avoiding aggressive post-crop border trimming before OCR review
• May 8, 2026 3.8.0-light
  MakeACopy 3.8.0 * Crop: aspect ratios (A3/A4/A5, Letter, Legal, custom), snap-to-right-angle, better edge drag, zoom/pan * Camera: sharper shots via AF/AE/AWB pre-lock; faster preview via NV21→RGBA fast path + pooling * Export: re-edit crop from preview; new high-pass "clean" modes (gray/color); zoomable preview * OCR: 2 modes + smarter policies * Offline only
• May 1, 2026 3.7.2-light
  MakeACopy 3.7.2 * Improved automatic aspect ratio of perspective-corrected scans: tilted A4 letters, long receipts and packaging (e.g. Tetra Pak) come out far less squashed * Uses a projective aspect-ratio estimation (Zhang & He, 2006) with graceful fallback to the previous heuristic for near-fronto-parallel captures * Fully offline, no cloud or tracking
• Apr 25, 2026 3.7.1-light
  MakeACopy 3.7.1 * Fix: File extensions are now preserved when saving to cloud providers (e.g. Nextcloud) via SAF * Fully offline, no cloud or tracking
• Mar 28, 2026 3.7.0-light
  MakeACopy 3.7.0 * New: Hindi language support (OCR, dictionary, UI, PDF export) * Fully offline, no cloud or tracking
• Mar 21, 2026 3.6.0-light
  MakeACopy 3.6.0 * Build: Migrated from JDK 17 to JDK 21 for improved performance and long-term support * Build: Updated Android Gradle Plugin, Gradle wrapper, and compileSdk to latest versions * Build: ONNX Runtime build files pinned and adapted for JDK 21 compatibility * Fixed: Crash (IllegalStateException) when confirming back navigation in multipage export after view was destroyed * Improved: Export option buttons now scale properly with font size and display size changes * Improved: DPI settings now have their own section header in export options * Improved: PDF quality filters changed from checkboxes to radio buttons for clearer exclusive selection * Fully offline, no cloud or tracking
• Mar 8, 2026 3.5.0-light
  MakeACopy 3.5.0 * New: Inbox Mode – configure a default export folder for frictionless scanning, no file picker needed (ideal for paperless-ngx, Nextcloud, Syncthing workflows). Guide: https://github.com/egdels/makeacopy/blob/main/docs/inbox_mode_guide_en.md * Fixed: File picker now remembers the last used folder correctly (improved initial URI handling for better OEM compatibility) * Fixed: Crash (OutOfMemoryError) during JPEG-compressed PDF export caused by alpha channel extraction in large images * Fully offline, no cloud or tracking
• Mar 6, 2026 3.4.0-light
  MakeACopy 3.4.0 (Release) * Added Turkish language support for OCR * Added configurable cleanup for completed scans (by age, count, or storage) * Independent storage locations for import and export * Fully offline, no cloud or tracking Hint: This is a release candidate - feedback and bug reports are welcome!
• Mar 1, 2026 3.3.0-light
  MakeACopy 3.3.0 (Release) * Major internal refactoring for improved code quality and maintainability * Introduced Hilt dependency injection — replaced all manual singletons * Significantly expanded test coverage with 200+ new unit tests * CI pipeline now includes automated quality gates (compile, test, lint) * Fixed deprecation warnings and resolved all Android Lint issues (0 issues) * Repository pattern consistently applied across all UI components * Minor bug fixes * Fully offline, no cloud or tracking
• Feb 22, 2026 3.2.1-light
  MakeACopy 3.2.1 (Release-Candidate) * Improved shadow removal for scanned documents (broader illumination correction) * Enhanced local contrast (CLAHE) for sharper, more readable text * Switched to Gaussian-weighted adaptive thresholding for better document binarization * Improved binarization quality for low-resolution images (e.g. from autoscan) * PDF Classic B/W mode now includes shadow removal and contrast enhancement * Fully offline, no cloud or tracking
• Feb 16, 2026 3.2.0-light
  MakeACopy 3.2.0 (Release-Candidate) * New: Page size selection for PDF export (Fit to image, A4, US Letter, Legal) * Default changed to "Fit to image" — PDF pages now match the scanned document * No image data is lost during export regardless of page size choice * OCR text layer adapts automatically to any page format * Fully offline, no cloud or tracking Hint: This is a release candidate. Please report any issues you find.
• Feb 15, 2026 3.1.0-light
  MakeACopy 3.1.0 (Release-Candidate) * Upgraded document detection model from ONNX small to large for higher accuracy (FP16-quantized, 50% smaller) * Added exposure correction for improved scan quality * Updated OpenCV to 4.13.0 for better image processing * Updated ONNX Runtime to v1.24.1 for faster edge detection * New: Light edition available with English and German OCR (~67 MB vs ~106 MB per ABI) * Improved code quality and maintainability * Performance optimizations throughout the app * Fully offline, no cloud or tracking

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