Scanner – Scan PDF, ID & Docs

OCR is the difference. Where the phone's built-in scanner produces a picture of a page, Luni's Scanner produces a PDF whose text can be searched and copied, recognising ten-plus languages from English and Spanish through Hindi and Arabic to Japanese, Korean and Chinese. Freelancers, students and remote workers with contracts, invoices and scribbled notes are the target.

Pages can be reordered, split or merged, and anything deleted is recoverable for 30 days. Signatures go on in whatever ink colour and pen thickness you choose, text can be added anywhere, sensitive details blurred and files password-locked. An ID and passport mode exists, and exports cover PDF, JPG, PNG and Word.

A student photographs a chapter, runs OCR and ends up with a PDF they can search for a quote in during an essay. A freelancer scans a signed contract, blurs the client's bank details, locks the file with a password and files it. Handwritten meeting notes become searchable text. Longer jobs involve rearranging pages, merging two scans into one and splitting a bundle apart, with the 30-day recovery window as a safety net. Exporting to Word rather than PDF turns a scan into an editable document.

Searchable text is the feature people realise they need after accumulating a folder of image-only scans they can't find anything in. Multilingual OCR widens that to people working across scripts, including Hindi, Arabic and East Asian languages, which many scanners handle poorly. Password locking and blurring attract anyone handling client or personal data.

Four screenshots are on the page, likely a capture view, a document editor showing the page tools, the signature or redaction screen and an export sheet. Business-category scanners of this sophistication tend toward a document-library home screen with thumbnails and a floating capture button. The listing doesn't describe the colour scheme or indicate whether a dark mode exists.

Version 2.12.10 suggests a second major release with a long sequence of maintenance updates. Luni is the developer name, with no corporate suffix given, but the 4.7 rating from more than a hundred thousand reviews is the largest sample among the scanners in this batch. Only an App Store listing appears on this page.

Rated 4+ and free to install. Strikingly, the description never mentions pricing, a subscription or which features are free, so assume some kind of paid tier exists and look for it before relying on OCR or Word export. Scanning and editing likely work offline; whether OCR runs on-device or needs a connection isn't stated. No account requirement is mentioned. Ads, storage and regional limits are also unaddressed.