Comparison

File Scanner vs Capture Documents

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

File Scanner

Features
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Take a photo of any document and instantly extract the part you need. File Scanner makes document scanning effortless. Just point your camera at a document, and the app automatically detects the edges and crops it perfectly. **Features** • Auto edge detection — the app finds the document boundaries for you • Color or black & white — switch freely between color and grayscale • Save to Photos — one tap saves the result to your camera roll • Quick and easy — no complicated settings, just point and shoot Best results with flat, four-sided documents for maximum accuracy. Perfect for: business cards, receipts, notes, ID cards, books, contracts, whiteboards

About

Capture Documents

This app captures documents and sends them to an intelligent document processing platform. It automatically classifies and extracts data from various document types, integrating with business systems for enhanced efficiency and customer experience.

Highlights
  • Document capture
  • Automatic classification and routing
  • Data extraction (OCR)
  • Multi-language text recognition
  • Integration with business systems
  • Low-code design experience
Features
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Captures documents and sends them to ABBYY’s leading low-code intelligent document processing (IDP) cloud platform ABBYY Vantage. Documents are automatically classified and routed to corresponding AI models which detect and extract relevant data points and pass them on to business systems such as ERP, CRM, banking, and insurance systems. Capture Documents provides a seamless customer-facing user experience for enterprises using ABBYY Vantage in their intelligent automation workflows. With Capture Documents your customers quickly and easily submit documents required for any interaction with your enterprise while Vantage significantly reduces the time you require to process such documents and reduces response time. The result is significantly improved customer experience and satisfaction with more efficient use of resources. ABBYY Vantage is an AI-driven low-code Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) cloud platform, that applies OCR to incoming documents, uses pre-trained extraction models, called Skills to extract data from structured, semi-structured, and unstructured documents such as invoices, IDs, pay slips, W-2, 1040 form, insurance claims, bill of lading, custom declarations and many more. Customers can also easily train their own extraction models based on their specific document types and content. ABBYY Vantage is ranked as a: **leader in the Everest Group Intelligent Document Processing Products PEAK Matrix® 2022*** **leader in ISG Provider Lens™ Intelligent Automation - IDP, 2021*** Using Capture Documents with ABBYY Vantage you can: • Recognize text (OCR) on scans in 200+ languages (including Latin, Cyrillic, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean alphabets). • Extract machine-printed text, handwritten text, checkmarks, and barcodes from virtually any scanned image. • Use pre-trained skills (models) for all types of documents. • Integrate with any business system including RPA, BPM, chatbots, and other intelligent automation platforms. BENEFITS • Enhanced customer-facing mobile experience. • Increased efficiency, reduced cost. • Reduced human error potential by intelligently processing data. • Designed for the citizen developer - simple low-code design experience. Visit us at: Corporate website: www.abbyy.com/vantage/ LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/abbyy/ Youtube: youtube.com/user/ABBYYVIDEOS

Screenshots

File Scanner4 screens
Capture Documents3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Capture Documents at none against File Scanner's 1. Capture Documents also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 8 days vs every 18 months). On price and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. File Scanner sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Capture Documents asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

File Scanner ships an update every 18 months, Capture Documents every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
File Scanner versus Capture Documents: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFile ScannerCapture Documents
PriceFreeFree
Rating—3.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—95.2% of reviews
Number of ratings—2 — better
Update frequencyEvery 18 monthsEvery 8 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB13 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCHI HAO CHIUABBYY USA Software House Inc

In-app purchases

1 purchases

File Scanner

One-time1
  • File Scanner - Full Version$2.99
None

Capture Documents

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is File Scanner free?
File Scanner is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Capture Documents free?
Capture Documents is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do File Scanner or Capture Documents have ads?
File Scanner shows ads; Capture Documents does not.
Which is updated more often, File Scanner or Capture Documents?
File Scanner ships an update every 18 months, and Capture Documents every 8 days. Most recently, File Scanner was updated on October 25, 2026 and Capture Documents on October 24, 2026.

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