For my personal documents, I use a Nextcloud installation on a RaspberryPi 3 and reachable from the outside. In order to digitalize paper documents that I receive, Iâve been using Scanbot for some years now.
Itâs an Android app that lets you photograph documents and save them as images or (my preference) pdf files.
With Scanbot Pro you can even let an OCR engine analyze the text, which stores the text as an extra layer in the pdf, making it searchable and even indexable (great if you use the Nextcloud Nextant app powered by Solr).
In order to connect Scanbot with your Nextcloud, you can simply define a custom WebDav server endpoint and select a folder in the app preferences. In Scanbot, you can then upload the scanned documents manually or have them uploaded automatically.
Scanbot also has an option for an Owncloud account (which is compatible with Nextcloud) to make the setup a bit easier because you only need your Nextcloud domain instead of the full Webdav address.
only one little concern⌠wouldnât nextant go out of service sometime during next future (like from NC 14 on)? have you tried replacing it with Full Text Search as well?
apart from that⌠wonderful. thanks so much for your contribution
For whatever reason, I was not able to use the ownCloud connector for my instance, so also went with webDAV. Didnât need a full path either as it brought up an interactive folder picker for me.
@JimmyKater When Full Text Search becomes stable (should be out of beta state pretty soon), Nextant isnât needed anymore. The result should be pretty similar though⌠it will index the OCRâed PDFs just fine; just using ElasticSearch instead of Solr, should make no difference for the end user.
Yes, I tested Full Text Search a while ago.
I believe it does not work. Attempted to add my Nextcloud account to Scanbot in all possible ways (URL with and without https:// prefix and with and without /remote.php/webdav suffix, user password and app password), but it never managed to establish the connection.
Interestingly, I can successfully connect to my Nextcloud instance with the âOwncloudâ offering, works fine. This forum thread was the first hit when I searched the web for âscanbot nextcloudâ, so if anyone else gets here looking for a solution, just use the âOwncloudâ or the WebDAV option.
I got this to work using nextcloud connector. Open your nextcloud in a web browser, hit the hamburger on top left, settings, then youâll see a url for your server. Copy paste that, along with user name and password, and it worked. I can also browse for existing folders for default upload location. Back up and running.
and on Friday 4th Iâll randomly select a winner!
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