The best scanner apps. Chosen by the community.
16 scanner apps, chosen by the community. Top of this view: Scanner App: PDF Scan — #65 overall. The overall rank spans all apps and changes with every vote. How the ranking works →
Scanner apps turn a phone camera into a document device: photograph a receipt, straighten the edges, save it as a PDF or send it on. They are usually needed when something has to reach the tax office, an insurer or the bookkeeping quickly.
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Good scanner apps show themselves in the image processing: are edges found reliably, is perspective distortion corrected, does text on grey paper stay legible? Then comes text recognition — and with it the question of whether it runs on the device or sends the image to a service. For receipts and identity documents that is the decisive difference. Also practical: multi-page batches, a sensible file size, saving straight into your own cloud, and whether the free version leaves a watermark.
This list is compiled by hand and deliberately overlaps with the PDF apps: many scanners produce PDFs, and many PDF apps can scan. The order comes from community votes.
