CLUSTER SCANNER-PHONE-TURNS · 10 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2012-08-02
Mobile document scanner apps
This cluster consists of mobile apps that turn a phone into a document scanner, capturing photos of documents, receipts, or notes and converting them to PDF/JPEG, often with OCR, e-signing, and editing features. The dated entries before the index start are sparse and irregular, appearing roughly once a year from August 2012 through December 2021, with two additional entries in June and July 2026. Traction leaders by activity signal are PDF Editor, Reader, Scanner; Scanner App - Scan PDF & Docs; and ScanGuru: PDF Scanner App, though all exhibit zero star ratings in the signal.
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 · 2 hand-coded · 8 unlabelled
Operator · 1 hobby · 8 commercial · 1 unlabelled
Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 10 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.
- 01photo-to-scan2★3 days—hand-codedhobbyPhoto scanner app that converts phone photos of paper documents into clean scans while preserving handwriting and ruled lines without OCR.
- 02PDF Editor, Reader, Scanner0★1 molivecommercialMobile app that turns a phone into a document scanner and PDF editor with OCR, e-signature, merging, splitting, and printing.
- 03Scanner App - Scan PDF & Docs0★14 dayslivecommercialA mobile scanner app that turns your phone into a document scanner with OCR and PDF conversion.
- 04Scanner Printer: PDF Editor0★18 daysliveMobile app that turns a phone camera into a document scanner and provides PDF editing, conversion, printing, CV creation, and translation tools.
- 05ScanGuru: PDF Scanner App0★2 molivecommercialMobile scanner app that turns phone into a scanner, with OCR, e-sign, annotation, and local storage, suitable for documents and notes.
- 06PDF Scanner・Document Scanner・0★2 molivecommercialMobile app that turns a phone into a document scanner, converting photos to PDFs with e-signatures and cloud sharing for business use.
- 07Faster Scan - Fast PDF Scanner0★3 molivecommercialMobile app that turns a phone into a high-speed document scanner with OCR text extraction, editing, and export to multiple formats.
- 08Document Scanner App- PDF Scan0★7 yrabandonedlivehand-codedcommercialMobile scanner app that turns phone camera captures of documents into PDF or JPEG files, adds e-signatures, enables printing, and uploads to cloud storage.
- 09Document Scanner - Scan Photo0★4 molivecommercialMobile scanner app that turns a phone into a document scanner, capturing, enhancing, and sharing PDFs and JPEGs with OCR and e-signature.
- 10SuperScan - PDF Scanner App0★1 yrabandonedlivecommercialScanner app that turns a phone into a document scanner with PDF/JPEG capture, e-signing, OCR, QR scanning, and offline storage.
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