Have you tried the Kaagaz Scanner the made-in-India alternative to CamScanner? Ever since India banned Chinese app CamScanner, Kaagaz Scanner has more than 12 lac downloads. Let’s read the story behind the app that went from zero downloads to millions within just 15 days!

Gaurav Shrishrimal, born and brought up in Mahasamund, Chhattisgarh, along with Snehanshu Gandhi and Pranjit Bindra, developed this app! Gaurav is an IIT-Kanpur alumnus. Snehanshu graduated from IIT-Bombay in 2007, and ISB Hyderabad in 2012, and Tamanjit is an Army Institute of Technology Pune alumnus. They worked together at home services startup Tapp Me for four years. Subsequently the idea for Sorted AI came as a personal use case for Snehanshu. He often felt the need to “be more organised”, and tried numerous productivity tools but could not stick to them. A medical emergency made him realise that his wife and parents were unaware of important documents related to health insurance and investments. Sorted AI works like a smart personal assistant and helps organise notifications, notes, reminders, classifying personal documents etc.

At the time of building Sorted AI, the team felt that user adoption of the document management solutions has been a challenge and scanning came as a natural extension to Sorted AI’s functionality. But it was Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s call for being ‘vocal for local’ that gave the impetus to the team to develop a scanning app. Since the idea originated from the call to support the nation, hence the name Kaagaz Scanner.

Gaurav tells us that the hard work which they put in for 4 to 5 years has finally paid off, they had 2 weeks of consecutive sleepless nights, but over 12 lacs of downloads. Going forward, the team now wants to nurture Kaagaz Scanner and launch a paid version with unlimited storage, extra security, AI engine, and a lot more features.