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 · 1 ai-built · 19 unlabelled
Operator · 15 commercial · 5 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.
- 21PDF Scanner AI: Scan Documents0★24 dayslivecommercialPortable scanner app that recognizes text in real time, converts files to PDFs, and provides rich editing tools.
- 22Document Scanner & Translate0★11 dayslivecommercialMobile app that scans documents and photos, edits PDFs, converts files, extracts text via OCR, and translates documents.
- 23Document Scanner - PDF Convert0★1 moliveMobile app that scans documents and photos into PDFs, converts formats, and adds editing, security, and AI tools via subscription.
- 24PDF Document Scanner: ScaniX0★1 moliveMobile document scanner app that digitizes documents, edits PDFs, extracts text, scans QR codes, and answers questions about document contents for students, professionals, and freelancers.
- 25PDF Editor & Files Converter.0★16 daysliveMobile document app that scans physical papers with OCR, edits PDF text directly, and converts files between PDF, image, and Office formats.
- 26ScanDoc Pro: Scan All Document0★2 molivecommercialMobile app that scans documents, IDs, QR codes, edits and signs PDFs, and converts files to PDF.
- 27PDF Editor - Convert File0★4 molivecommercialMobile app that edits PDFs, extracts text from scans using OCR, converts images to PDF, and manages documents.
- 28PDF Scanner・Document Scanner0★17 dayslivecommercialMobile app that scans documents with a camera, recognizes text via OCR, and offers editing and organization tools.
- 29Document Scanner: AI PDF Scan0★6 mostalelivecommercialMobile app that scans documents into PDFs, uses AI to enhance quality, extracts text via OCR, and exports to editable formats.
- 30PDF Editor, Files Converter0★7 mostalelivecommercialMobile document app that scans paper into PDFs, edits text and images, applies signatures, and shares or converts files.
- 31Document Scanner - OCR & PDF0★3 molivecommercialMobile app that scans documents to PDF, extracts text with OCR, reads PDFs, and manages stored files.
- 32PDF Scanner App: Scanner+ Docs0★9 mostalelivecommercialMobile app that scans paper documents and photos, enhances and colorizes images, and converts them into searchable PDF files.
- 33PDF Converter-PDF Editor&Files0★10 mostalelivecommercialMobile PDF converter and editor that converts files between PDF and other formats, scans documents, extracts text with OCR, and merges, splits, and compresses PDFs.
- 34Scaneum: PDF Document Scanner0★1 yrabandonedlivecommercialMobile app that scans documents with a camera, extracts text with OCR, and exports searchable PDFs and images.
- 35Document Manager with Scanner0★1 yrabandonedliveMobile app that scans documents, organizes them into folders, translates text, and exports in multiple formats.
- 36Scan to PDF: Document scanner0★1 yrabandonedliveai-builtcommercialMobile app that scans documents with a camera, converts to PDF, adds OCR, editing, encryption, and cloud sync for personal document management.
- 37PDF Reader - Editor & Scanner0★3 moliveMobile PDF app that reads, annotates, scans, converts, and manages documents, with OCR, AI summaries, and cloud storage access.
- 38PDF Editor Converter & Scanner0★10 dayslivecommercialMobile app that scans documents and converts files to and from PDF, with editing and quick sharing tools.
- 39PDF Reader - OCR Scan Edit0★5 molivecommercialMobile PDF app that edits and rearranges pages, converts images to PDF, imports files, and extracts text from scans via OCR.
- 40Document Scanner: PaperScanner0★5 molivecommercialMobile app that scans physical documents into PDFs and manages them in a single library for paperless users.
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.