Text Capture vs PDF Scanner | Scan Document
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Text Capture
Easily extract text from your camera in real-time. This app allows you to edit, copy, share, or listen to captured text. It functions entirely offline, ensuring your data remains private.
- Real-time text capture from camera
- Offline functionality
- Edit captured text
- Copy text to clipboard
- Share text to other apps
- Text-to-speech functionality
- Translate text
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Text Capture allows you to capture text from your device's camera. Just point the camera, see the text in real time and capture it by pressing the Capture button! Text Capture works 100% offline protecting your privacy and the content of your scans as your scanned data never leaves your device. After capturing text you can: - Edit - Copy to clipboard - Share on other Apps - Hear it out loud - Translate Text * Text Capture works on any latin alphabet text * Text to speech and Translation works for text written on the following languages: Arabic, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkis.
PDF Scanner | Scan Document
Digitize any printed document into a PDF or editable text using your device's camera. This app offers automatic text recognition (OCR), image cropping, filters, and high-resolution scanning for efficient document management.
- Image to PDF conversion
- Automatic text recognition (OCR)
- Image cropping and filters
- High-resolution PDF scanning
- Scan multiple images at once
- Convert textual images to digital text
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Do you feel a problem in writing your document by looking at the text on the picture? PDF Scanner - Image to Text app found a solution of both problems which will help you to convert Image to PDF. It turns your device into a powerful portable PDF scanner that recognizes text automatically (OCR). Moreover, you can now change the paper document into PDF, Now you can convert any textual image to digital text. The PDF Scanner helps you to digitize any printed document such as notes, notebook, books, articles, letters, receipts, contracts etc. By using PDF Scanner you can capture any of your paper document or you can browse it from Photo Gallery and change the image to text with one button click. PDF scanner is easy to use, it gives you an option that you can select multiple images at one time and change them into text. Scanner app is giving high-quality features given below: • Now you can SCAN anything, Anywhere with just one click • It scans your image into high quality or High-resolution PDF • You can select multiple images to change them into text • CROP option - Capture a picture of any paper document and PDF Scanner is giving you an option where you crop your image from all four angle • Filters - Apply filters on the captured images to enhance its visibility. It also allows you to change contrast, enhance, sharpen for the perfect document quality! • Fast way to Scan Image to Adobe PDF file • You can scan unlimited images into PDF or text file • Automatic OCR turns text into the content so you can edit and reuse. Note: The PDF Scanner includes an optional auto-renewable subscription, 2.99/month after that. Payment will be charged to your iTunes account at confirmation of purchase and will automatically renew (at the duration/price selected) unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hrs before the end of the current period. Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period. Current subscription may not be cancelled during the active subscription period; however, you can manage your subscription and/or turn off auto-renewal by visiting your iTunes Account Settings after purchase. Any unused portion of the free three day initial period will be forfeited when you purchase a subscription. Terms of Use https://bit.ly/36Ksgmw Privacy Policy https://bit.ly/352NCe8
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: PDF Scanner | Scan Document at 5.0 against Text Capture's 4.5. PDF Scanner | Scan Document also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.5). Text Capture's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (2.7K vs 3). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
Both are free to download. Text Capture sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and PDF Scanner | Scan Document sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
PDF Scanner | Scan Document holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Text Capture has 2.7K ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Text Capture ships an update weekly, PDF Scanner | Scan Document every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Text Capture | PDF Scanner | Scan Document |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (2.7K ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 42.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2.7K — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.5 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 88 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Arthur Eduardo Skaetta Alvarez Desenvolvimento de Software LTDA. | Muhammad Afzal Noor Muhammad |
Customer experience
Text Capture
PDF Scanner | Scan Document
Bugs and requests
Text Capture
Reported bugs
3 issues- Unable to restore previous purchases
- Fails to recognize certain languages/scripts
- Inconsistent text capture quality
Requested features
3 requests- Add ability to rotate/crop captured images
- Improve accuracy for handwritten/non-standard text
- Integrate with note-taking/productivity apps
PDF Scanner | Scan Document
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Text Capture
- Premium$3.99
PDF Scanner | Scan Document
- Monthly Subscription3 Days trial$2.991 Month
- Yearly Subscription3 Days trial$6.991 Year
Questions
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