- IIT Bombay has launched an alternative to Camscanner, a Chinese app mainly used for scanning documents that was banned by the Government of India.
- The new app launched by IIT Bombay students is called as AIR SCANNER and is available free of cost.
- IIT Bombay has developed an indigenous alternative to Chinese document-scanning app, following the Centre’s decision to ban 59 mobile apps.
- AIR Scanner was launched on Independence Day, 15th August 2020.
- Rohit Kumar Chaudhary and Kavin Agrawal, two final-year B.Tech students in the Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Bombay who developed this app.
