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CLUSTER MOBILE-OCR-PDF · 9 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2017-04-11

Mobile OCR scanning apps

This cluster includes mobile apps that scan paper documents, receipts, whiteboards, and books into PDF, JPEG, or similar formats while extracting text via OCR. Nine dated entries appear sporadically from April 2017 to July 2026, with a small grouping in late 2025. All traction leaders show zero stars, so none currently leads on activity.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

APR 2017: 1OCT 2017: 1OCT 2018: 1NOV 2019: 1SEP 2022: 1OCT 2025: 1NOV 2025: 1DEC 2025: 1JUL 2026: 1
APR 2017JUL 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 · 1 hand-coded · 8 unlabelled

Operator · 1 hobby · 1 indie · 4 commercial · 1 open source · 2 unlabelled

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 9 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01Document Scanner to PDF AI0★1 molivecommercialMobile document scanning app that converts photos of documents, receipts, and IDs into clean PDFs with OCR text extraction and editing tools.
  2. 02Glyfen0★3 moliveopen sourceOffline OCR app that scans photos for text and enables full-text search of receipts, notes, and screenshots on-device.
  3. 03PDF Scanner • Document Scanner0★4 molivecommercialMobile app that scans paper documents into PDF or JPG and adds OCR text extraction, page reordering, merging, splitting, encryption, and printing.
  4. 04Document Scanner - Scan Master0★8 mostaleliveMobile app that digitizes documents, receipts, contracts, and whiteboards into PDF, JPEG, TXT, or PNG with OCR.
  5. 05PagePick0★6 mostale—hobbyMobile app that uses OCR to extract text from photographed book pages, corrects it with AI, and archives favorite sentences in a personal library.
  6. 06Document Scanner ◦ Scan to PDF0★1 yrabandonedliveMobile app that scans paper documents, receipts, and IDs into PDF or JPG files and extracts text with OCR.
  7. 07Cam to PDF - Document Scanner0★1 yrabandonedliveindieMobile app that turns documents, receipts, books, and whiteboards into PDF or JPEG scans and extracts text via OCR.
  8. 08PDF Scanner & Document Scanner0★6 yrabandonedlivehand-codedcommercialiOS app that turns a phone into a document scanner, capturing receipts, contracts, and book pages as high-quality PDF or JPEG files.
  9. 09Nova Scanner-Scan PDF Document0★9 mostalelivecommercialMobile scanner app that turns photos of pages, receipts, and whiteboards into PDF or JPEG, and adds OCR text extraction, faxing, and document signing.

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