CLUSTER SCANS-TEXT-MOBILE · 55 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2018-07-28
Mobile document scanning OCR apps
This cluster of 34 mobile apps digitizes paper documents via camera into PDFs, offering OCR text extraction, editing, e-signing, encryption, and file organization. New entries appeared steadily from June 2015 through July 2026, with most months seeing a single product and a few months seeing two, forming a long, consistent trickle rather than any sharp pattern. The traction leaders are PDF Editor & Converter - PDNob, Cam PDF OCR Document Scanner, and PDF Scanner AI: Scan Documents, though their activity signal (stars) is listed as zero.
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 · 20 unlabelled
Operator · 2 hobby · 11 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 20 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.
- 01PDF Editor & Converter - PDNob0★1 molivecommercialMobile app that edits, annotates, converts, compresses, and backs up PDFs, using OCR to extract editable text from scanned documents.
- 02Cam PDF OCR Document Scanner0★1 moliveMobile app that scans documents with the camera, converts them to PDFs, extracts text via OCR, and edits and manages files.
- 03PDF Editor: Sign OCR0★1 molivecommercialLocal PDF workspace app that imports or scans documents, runs OCR, merges files, adds signatures and redactions, and exports searchable PDFs.
- 04COVERT0★6 days—hobbyMobile app that converts photos and document scans into editable tables using OCR and AI, with text-to-speech readback and CSV export.
- 05PDF Editor: Edit & Convert PDF0★15 dayslivecommercialMobile app that scans documents, edits and merges PDFs, converts files to PDF, and adds signatures and passwords.
- 06DocsFlow0★24 days—Mobile app that scans handwritten Arabic documents, identifies the writer from handwriting samples, and converts text into editable Word files.
- 07doc-mint0★12 days—Mobile app that scans documents with the camera and converts them into PDF files.
- 08ScanLens: PDF Document Scanner0★18 daysliveMobile document scanner and PDF editor that scans pages, converts photos, signs, annotates, merges, compresses, and extracts text.
- 09pdf-to-doc-converter0★13 dayslivehobbyApp that converts scanned PDF files into editable DOCX documents using OCR with support for over ten languages.
- 10PDF Reader: Scanner & OCR Scan0★1 molivecommercialMobile document app that scans pages into PDFs, extracts text with OCR, edits and converts files, and adds signatures.
- 11PDF Scanner, Editor, Converter0★1 molivecommercialMobile app that scans documents and photos, converts them to PDF and office formats, and edits or recognizes text.
- 12Document Scanner And PDF0★1 molivecommercialMobile app that scans documents with a camera, converts them to PDF, and includes OCR text recognition and backup to cloud services.
- 13iScanner: PDF Document Scanner0★11 daysliveenterpriseMobile app that scans paper documents with a camera and produces cleaned PDFs, offering editing, OCR text extraction, e-signing, and file organization for professionals and students.
- 14PDF Scanner－Document Scanner0★1 molivecommercialMobile app that scans documents, performs OCR to extract text, and saves them as searchable PDFs with multi-page support.
- 15PDF Scanner - Photo Converter0★1 molivecommercialMobile app that scans documents and photos, converts them to PDFs, and extracts text with OCR.
- 16DocScanner: PDF Scan0★1 moliveMobile app that turns camera captures into searchable PDFs with offline OCR, organizes scans in folders, and keeps everything on-device.
- 17PDF Document Scanner Converter0★26 dayslivecommercialMobile PDF utility that scans documents, converts images and files to PDF, converts PDFs to other formats, and adds signatures.
- 18Mark PDF: PDF Editor & Scanner0★27 dayslivecommercialMobile app that scans documents, edits and manages PDFs with merging, image extraction, and organization.
- 19VibeScan: PDF Document Scanner0★18 daysliveMobile document scanner app that captures, straightens, and crops pages on-device, performs OCR, and exports PDFs with annotations and signatures.
- 20QR Code Reader & PDF Scanner0★18 dayslivecommercialMobile app that scans QR codes and documents, converts them to PDF, and offers editing and file organization features.
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.