CLUSTER MOBILE-SCANNER-CONVERTS · 24 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2017-10-05
Mobile document scanners with OCR
This cluster comprises mobile and desktop apps that digitize paper documents via camera or scanner, offering OCR text extraction, PDF conversion, editing, signing, and cloud backup. Entries were sporadic and low-frequency from 2010 through 2025, with most months having a single entry and only occasional months seeing two, indicating no clear acceleration over time. Traction leaders by activity signal are Atlas AI: PDF Document Scanner, Scanner – Scan PDF, ID & Docs, and Document Scanner・Photo to PDF, though all currently show zero stars.
Entry timeline
ENTRY TIMELINE
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 ai-built · 3 unlabelled
Operator · 1 commercial · 3 unlabelled
Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 4 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.
- 21ScanBoy - Document Scanner0★2 yrabandonedliveDocument scanner app that turns camera photos into PDFs, featuring AI-generated filenames, OCR, and customizable filename templates.
- 22Printer & Documents Scanner0★2 yrabandonedlivecommercialMobile document scanner that converts photos to PDF, provides editing and cloud sync, and charges a subscription for premium features.
- 23ScanBox-OCR & Document Scanner0★3 yrabandonedliveMobile document scanner that extracts text from images using OCRable, converts to editable text or PDF, and supports batch processing.
- 24Smartphone OCR0★unknownliveai-builtMobile tool that scans printed or handwritten text through a phone camera and converts it to editable digital text.
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.