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The best way to install them is through the F-Droid store, which is a catalogue of FOSS software for Android. It's installable by downloading the .apk file linked on the front page of the F-Droid projec'ts website. The mentioned apps from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology can then be found by searching for "SECUSO", which is the name of the research project behind them all.

Alternatively, you can also get them through the Google Play Store under this link or again by searching for "SECUSO".

In particular, I recommend getting the QR code reader, because many of the free-to-use scanners route everything you scan through their servers, so they're obviously collecting your data on their servers, wherever these may be located.

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[โ€“] thevoidzero@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Didn't even know about the org, but that's the QR scanner I have been using.

Many people accept ad, or online website to do simple things like QR code, file conversion etc way too easily.

[โ€“] Novocirab@feddit.org 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Yeah, and I get it: It's absurd how difficult it is under Linux (or Windows I guess) to do find reliable programs to do basic things like rearranging PDF files (PDF Arranger is good) or compressing PDF files (haven't yet found something better than the Ghostscript command from StackOverflow, even though there should be stuff out there?) or converting stuff to and from PDF.

[โ€“] thevoidzero@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Wait poppler-utils can do a lot of pdf related things. Haven't tried rearranging but it has tools for separating pages and uniting them. And pandoc can covert between a lot of document formats. But it doesn't do it from pdf, can use pdftext, inkscape, graphicsmagick etc based on what you want to extract (text, vector graphics, raster graphics) etc.

[โ€“] Zoop@beehaw.org 8 points 1 week ago

Wow, these look awesome! Thank you so much! I love that they have a Pain Tracker Diary thingy. That's gonna be helpful. Thank you! <3

[โ€“] 4shtonButcher@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This is amazing! I hope I'll remember it next time someone needs one of these tools. My default camera app has QR scanning built in but now I wonder if that's going to some servers?!?

If I'm not mistaken, the standard QR-scanners that are part of th IPhone or Android cameras just execute the scanned QR-godes. The Secuso scanner just scans and displays the code, and asks what to do with it. You have to examine it before use.