So living in Germany you tend to accumulate a fair amount of documentation. What’s worse is that it all could be potentially important to some future beaurocratic process. I wanted to make the archiving of these documents digital and searchable. I haven’t really found any android application out there that does what I want so here I go down the road of trying to build my own. I want to see if I can leverage my dotnet knowledge and build a cross platform C# based application using the brand new .MAUI framework. Let’s see how it goes :)

Approach

• Dotnet MAUI in combination with the tesseract ocr nuget package: https://github.com/charlesw/tesseract/blob/master/docs/examples.md
• Come up with a strategy for categorizing and making the documentation easily searchable without performance loss over time.

First things first

• Setup the project as an open source one on GitHub.
• Add a CI pipeline for building the android version of the application. Many thanks to the authors of this blog article for the write up on using GitHub actions with .MAUI.

Next up

• Add some unit testing.
• Intergrate the tesseract nuget package.
• Create a camera widget for capturing an image.