Like for making PDFs of physical documents? It's not open source, but the Google Drive app can scan documents. It works fine, in my experience.
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Yeah, Drive is one option but I'm hoping for something where I can just save PDFs to the device or share directly rather than saving to Drive.
I know its not foss and Microsoft is the devil but Office lens let's you save to the device directly in a lot of formats like pdf, word or as pictures
Also evil, but the Adobe scanner does similar
Not sure if evil or not, but Dropbox also has a nice scanning feature. It goes to the cloud, but you can download the PDFs after creating them. And there is a free tier.
I haven't used them but these are on the izzysoft F-Droid repo:
I currently use Notebloc. It's not opesource and has ads. But it's decent.
I don’t know if the grapheneOS camera lets you scan anything (phone lost charge) but it might since it also has a QR code scanner option. Have you searched Fdroid?
Use Clear Scan with internet permission blocked or removed. Nothing will trouble you further.