Nearly every day, my kids come home from school and go on about some new app or game they and their mates are excited about.
  • M600@lemmy.worldEnglish
    151·
    2 months ago

    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.

    • ddh@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      2·
      2 months 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.

      • M600@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        The app was really good and I’d be willing to pay for it, but not a subscription just to use features that are already in the app.

        Additionally, it’s a scanner app, who scans enough to subscribe to a scanner app but doesn’t scan enough to not just buy a scanner?