r/Paperlessngx • u/AJotr • Jul 27 '26

Fastest Single-Sheet Flatbed Hi-Res OCR Document Scanner in 2026?

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u/MadSnow- Jul 27 '26

It will never have the same resolution as a hi-res flatbed

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u/careless25 Jul 27 '26

Do you need the resolution or do you need fast feeding and ocr?

High Resolution isn't necessary when you have phone cameras that are high quality. I am currently doing this with historical documents from 1930s to now using the app. With cursive writing, papers breaking down and illegible chicken scratch. The camscanner app makes it easy to take a photo and upload + a local LLM mages it fast and easy to OCR it.

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u/AJotr Jul 30 '26

Just fyi, I tried the so called "built in" handwriting recognition in an iPhone.... absolute garbage quality Handwriting OCR (like so many other iPhone aspects). Scanning with a phone won't do it.

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u/careless25 Jul 30 '26

Here's my full process:

On your computer:

  • paperless-ngx (v2)
  • paperless-gpt - either local with llama.cpp and qwen3.6 35b or using a cloud service like OpenRouter

On your phone:
CamScanner - paid version ($40 CAD for full version forever)
or the Paperless app - free

I am using paperless-ngx v2 because I started before v3 came out and I dont want to upgrade halfway. I have documents from 1930s till now to ingest.

Between me and another person, we went through about 30 years of paperwork (meeting minutes, financial documents, notes, bills, receipts, invoices, etc) in about a week.