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[โ€“] M600 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

There was an iOS app I used like this that did a great job of scanning text books.

After I used it for about 6 months this exact thing happened. Started charging fees for many different things.

Exporting images as pdf had a charge, then scanning to make the text searchable had a fee.

I just exported as jpg and used imagic and ocrmypdf to take care of this.

Then I learned that iOS has a built in scanner in the files app, so I just switched to that one.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

Yep, one free and one paid app I have used for a while recently moved previously entitled functionality behind subscription paywalls. Serves me right. Will stick to libre apps from here and suffer that way instead.