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 · 3 hand-coded · 12 unlabelled
Operator · 2 indie · 8 commercial · 5 unlabelled
Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 15 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.
- 41Scanwise Pdf Edit AI0★7 mostalelivecommercialMobile PDF editor app that edits scanned documents via OCR, manages pages, converts between formats, encrypts, signs, and fills forms.
- 42PDF Editor: Converter files0★8 mostaleliveMobile app that edits PDF text and images, scans documents, adds signatures, and converts PDFs to and from Office and image formats.
- 43eScan: PDF Scanner App0★10 mostalelivecommercialMobile app that scans documents into PDF, JPEG, or DOC, converts images to searchable text, and lets users edit, sign,and share documents.
- 44PDF Mpjex - Editor for pdf0★6 mostalelivecommercialMobile app that creates PDFs from scans and photos, merges and extracts pages, and edits PDFs with markup and password protection.
- 45PDF Reader - Easy Editor0★18 dayslivecommercialMobile app that scans documents, converts photos to PDF, edits and converts PDFs, and encrypts files for privacy.
- 46Document Scanner : Doc To PDF0★1 yrabandonedliveMobile app that scans documents with a camera, converts them to PDF, and provides text extraction, signing, and editing tools.
- 47Scan 2 PDF: Document Scanner0★1 yrabandonedliveindieMobile app that scans documents and photos, converts them to PDF files, and offers editing tools like cropping and signing.
- 48PDF Scanner App - OCR Docuscan0★2 yrabandonedliveDocument scanner app that lets users photograph papers, convert them to PDF, extract text with OCR, and organize files on the device.
- 49MyDoc:e-Signature & Office App0★2 yrabandonedliveOffline mobile office app that manages files, scans documents, edits PDFs, converts formats, and adds electronic signatures.
- 50PDF Scan: Document Scanner App0★3 yrabandonedlivecommercialMobile app that scans documents, converts themo PDF,applies text recognition, and supports printing and editing of scanned files.
- 51Document scanner: create PDF0★6 yrabandonedlivehand-codedcommercialMobile app that scans documents and creates high-quality PDF or JPG files with a single tap.
- 52Document Scanner & OCR0★6 yrabandonedlivehand-codedMobile app that scans documents with a camera, applies adjustments, and extracts text from images into PDF files.
- 53Scan Pro PDF: Document Scanner0★2 yrabandonedlivecommercialMobile app that scans documents into PDFs, extracts text with OCR, and offers real-time text recognition and editing.
- 54PDF Editor: sign, fill & more0★2 yrabandonedlivehand-codedindieMobile app that scans paper documents into PDFs and other formats and provides editing and organization tools.
- 55Document Scanner: PDF Editor0★3 yrabandonedlivecommercialMobile app that scans documents into PDFs, converts formats, extracts text with OCR, and stores scans locally.
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.