'Kaagaz Scanner', India's answer to China's CamScanner, registers 1 lakh downloads in 24 hours

Guwahati: 'Kaagaz Scanner', a desi alternative for banned Chinese app CamScanner, developed by Sorted AI, an Indian Startup, has witnessed 1 lakh downloads in just 24 hours.

Kagaaz Scanner has registered over 1 lakh downloads within one day of CamScanner being banned and is presently seeing considerable interest in the Google Play Store.

CamScanner, a highly popular app for scanning and storing documents, has been banned by the government of India as part of the 59 Chinese apps that were blacklisted for data and privacy concerns.

The Indian Government on Monday issued a release on the ban of 59 Chinese mobile apps that are prejudicial to the security of the state and public order, CamScanner being one of them.

Now, India has built an alternative named Kaagaz Scanner which aims to do exactly what CamScanner used to, only in an Indian guise. Since CamScanner was largely used to scan personal identification documents, storing such documents on the cloud server of an app hosted in China was termed prejudicial to India's sovereignty, integrity, and national security.

While speaking about the app via a LinkedIn post, Gaurav Shrishrimal, the founder of Sorted AI stated, "We built Kaagaz Scanner as a side project after the call of our Prime Minister for 'Vocal For Local' and 'Atmanirbhar Bharat'. As soon as we got the news of Chinese apps being banned, we started pushing the app in all of our WhatsApp groups and social media feeds. We were lucky to be picked by a few big influencers, which gave us the initial push. That, coupled with a simple, easy to use the product, started increasing our install numbers." 

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