scan.lol vs WeScan

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scan.lol		WeScan
	Project
7	Mentions	3
5	Stars	2,771
-	Growth	0.6%
0.0	Activity	6.2
over 2 years ago	Latest Commit	2 months ago
HTML	Language	Swift
GNU General Public License v3.0 only	License	MIT License

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

scan.lol

Posts with mentions or reviews of scan.lol. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-06-29.

Bring back menus QR codes are terrible
2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Jun 2021

Hey so in any case if someonw or you yourself is struggling to understand how to scan a qr code on their phone, always point them to my mini tiny product called https://scan.lol
Show HN: Simple QR Code Scanner
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Feb 2021
Barcode Scanner app on Google Play infects 10M users with one update
7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Feb 2021

HEY THIS IS THE PERFECT MOMENT TO PLUG MY SUPER MINI PROJECT: https://scan.lol
Excuse my caps!
Show HN: I built a tiny product: scan.lol
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Jan 2021

Hi! Op here.
Source code: https://github.com/TimDaub/scan.lol
Let me know if you have questions/feedback.
Malware on My Android Phone
5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Jan 2021

Where does https://github.com/TimDaub/scan.lol/blob/master/qr-scanner-w... come from then?

WeScan

Posts with mentions or reviews of WeScan. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-02-07.

Is there a way to get the Document Scanner cropping tool to be used elsewhere?
1 project | /r/swift | 27 Nov 2022
Barcode Scanner app on Google Play infects 10M users with one update
7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Feb 2021

I noticed the package name com.qrcodescanner.barcodescanner. and went to https://qrcodescanner.com/ which advertises another very popular barcode scanner wescan.
they also offer an sdk of their own for including a barcode scanner into your app. https://github.com/WeTransfer/WeScan
I'm not really sure they are connected (package names don't verify domain names AFAIK). Just curious.
Show HN: OpenScan – open-source document scanner app
4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Jan 2021

https://github.com/wetransfer/wescan

What are some alternatives?

When comparing scan.lol and WeScan you can also consider the following projects:

greenpass-covid19-qrcode-decoder - An easy tool for decoding Green Pass Covid-19 QrCode

react-native-vision-camera - 📸 A powerful, high-performance React Native Camera library.

App Manager - A full-featured package manager and viewer for Android

OpenScan - A privacy-friendly Document Scanner app

Seedvault - A backup application for the Android Open Source Project.

PaddleOCR - Awesome multilingual OCR toolkits based on PaddlePaddle (practical ultra lightweight OCR system, support 80+ languages recognition, provide data annotation and synthesis tools, support training and deployment among server, mobile, embedded and IoT devices)

BinaryEye - Yet another barcode scanner for Android

OpenNoteScanner - Android application for scanning and manipulating handwritten notes and documents.

Secure-QR-Reader - Privacy Focused and Secure QR Reader

ZXing - ZXing ("Zebra Crossing") barcode scanning library for Java, Android