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ethereal-developers / OpenScan

A privacy-friendly Document Scanner app
BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
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[Feature Request] Selectable save-to directory #44

Open user8446 opened 3 years ago

user8446 commented 3 years ago

Hello,

Currently when saving to the device, the path is hardcoded to /OpenScan/PDF. You then have to exit OpenScan, open a file manager app, navigate to /OpenScan/PDF, and then move the file to the wanted directory.

It would be a great improvement if there was a manual save to device button in which a directory picker would appear and then you could drop the document where it needs to go from within OpenScan.

Thank you!

vikram0230 commented 3 years ago

Due to playstore privacy policy updates this won't be possible in the future.

CouldBeThis commented 3 years ago

@user8446 maybe as a workaround you could use SaveTo…

user8446 commented 3 years ago

That's exactly what I've been using and works flawlessly. Thank you!

kdkasad commented 3 years ago

Due to playstore privacy policy updates this won't be possible in the future.

Just out of curiosity, can you point me to the part of the privacy policy that prevents this? It seems unreasonable to not allow apps to save files to a wherever the user chooses.

vikram0230 commented 3 years ago

Google Play restricts the use of high risk or sensitive permissions like MANAGE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE,

Later, we noticed that exceptions can be made to access the storage. We'll look into it and add the feature. Thanks for asking :)