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CLUSTER CAPTURES-ENHANCES-MOBILE · 17 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2015-10-17

Mobile document scanners with OCR

This cluster consists of mobile document scanner apps that capture and enhance images of documents, extract text via OCR, and export as searchable PDFs or other formats, with some also offering editing, signing, and sharing. The dated pre-index entries span from 2010 to 2026-07, with single entries in 2010, 2015, 2020, and 2024 plus a cluster of three entries in 2024, and one more in 2026-07, indicating a sporadic but eventually denser appearance. The traction leaders by activity signal are EasyScanner, timdev-docs-scanly, and PDF Scanner Pro, all showing 0 stars.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

JUN 2010: 1MAY 2015: 1OCT 2015: 1APR 2017: 1OCT 2017: 1JAN 2024: 1AUG 2024: 1MAY 2025: 1MAY 2026: 1JUL 2026: 2AUG 2026: 1SEP 2026: 4OCT 2026: 1
JUN 2010OCT 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 3 hand-coded · 14 unlabelled

Operator · 4 hobby · 6 commercial · 1 enterprise · 6 unlabelled

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 17 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01ScanLens1★25 dayslivecommercialMobile document scanner app that captures documents and extracts structured information using on-device recognition.
  2. 02PaperVault0★24 days—hobbyMobile document scanner that captures physical documents, rectifies perspective, performs text recognition, and offers local search and multi-page PDF export.
  3. 03Numeriscan0★24 days—hobbyA native macOS document scanner that captures, crops, rotates, and exports multi-page PDFs from legacy USB scanners.
  4. 04scancraft0★24 days—hobbyMobile document scanner that captures, crops, enhances, and exports multi-page scans as PDF or images, keeping all documents stored on-device.
  5. 05doc-reader0★8 days—hobbyMobile document scanner and PDF toolkit that opens Word and Excel files, scans paper to PDF with OCR, and merges, splits, and compresses documents.
  6. 06ScanIQ - AI Document Scanner0★1 molivecommercialMobile document scanner that captures, enhances, signs, edits, summarizes, translates, organizes, and faxes documents.
  7. 07EasyScanner - Document Scanner0★2 molivecommercialPrivacy-focused mobile document scanner that captures multi-page documents, performs offline text recognition, and creates searchable PDFs.
  8. 08timdev-docs-scanly0★1 mo—Mobile document scanner that captures, straightens, enhances, and organizes documents into searchable PDF library.
  9. 09PDF Scanner Pro: Document Scan0★2 molivecommercialMobile document scanner that captures, enhances, and organizes scans into searchable PDFs with OCR, signing, and sharing.
  10. 10Scanner App: Genius Scan0★23 dayslivehand-codedenterpriseDocument scanner that captures, enhances, organizes, and exports pages as multi-page PDFs.
  11. 11Scanner App: CleanScanner0★5 moliveMobile document scanner that captures papers, receipts and IDs, cleans images, organizes pages, and exports and edits PDFs with signature and security tools.
  12. 12Scanner：PDF Document Scanner0★2 molivecommercialMobile document scanner that captures documents, receipts, and IDs, converts to PDF, reads barcodes, and organizes files with export options.
  13. 13OSS Document Scanner0★4 moliveOpen-source mobile scanner app that captures documents, enhances and organizes pages, performs offline OCR search, and exports PDFs.
  14. 14Paperlogix - Document Scanner0★7 mostalelivecommercialMobile document scanner that captures receipts and documents, corrects perspective, organizes scans into folders and tags, and automates workflows in the paid version.
  15. 15Atlas Document Scanner0★2 yrabandonedliveMobile document scanner that captures text with OCR, stores files locally on-device, and exports to PDF or JPEG formats.
  16. 16ScanDoc - Document Scanner OCR0★7 yrabandonedlivehand-codedMobile document scanner that captures pages and business cards, applies OCR, crops and adjusts images, and exports scans as PDF or text.
  17. 1735mmScanner Free | Document Scanner and OCR0★10 yrabandonedlivehand-codedMobile scanner that captures documents, enhances scans, extracts text via OCR, and shares as PDF or image files.

Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.