PDF Factory Plus vs PrivScanner
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PDF Factory Plus
This app offers a comprehensive suite of local PDF processing tools, ensuring your files remain secure and private. It provides intuitive features for editing, converting, merging, and protecting PDF documents without requiring an internet connection or account creation.
- Local PDF processing for enhanced security
- Password protection and decryption
- Page deletion and extraction
- Merge multiple PDFs
- Image and XPS to PDF conversion
- PDF repair and linearization
- PDF to scanned file conversion
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PDF Dream Factory processes your files locally, eliminating the need for server uploads and providing the highest level of file security. The application comprehensively addresses all your PDF processing requirements, offering fast, lightweight, and intuitive operations. **User-Friendly Design**: All functions are crafted for simplicity. You can start using the app efficiently without referring to any help guides. **Instant Access**: Begin immediately—no account creation is required. Complete tasks within seconds. **Multilingual Support**: Available in English, Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German. **Top-Tier Security**: Conduct all operations offline. With local-only processing, your files stay secure, never leaving your device. With PDF Dream Factory, handling PDF files has never been easier. Here’s a breakdown of its powerful features: - **Encryption**: Protect sensitive data by password-locking PDF files. - **Decryption**: Remove restrictions on copying, printing, and editing, enabling seamless content management. - **Page Deletion**: Effortlessly remove unwanted pages from PDF documents. - **Page Extraction**: Select and save specific pages, ideal for targeted printing tasks. - **File Merging**: Combine pages from multiple PDFs into a single, unified document. - **Image-to-PDF Conversion**: Transform one or more images into PDF format for simplified management, printing, and sharing. - **XPS-to-PDF Conversion**: Accurately convert XPS files to PDF with 100% fidelity. - **PDF Repair**: Our advanced algorithm addresses various corruption issues, ensuring repaired files are compatible with all PDF readers. - **PDF Linearization**: Optimize PDFs for faster online viewing. Linearized files load page by page, offering a smoother experience compared to traditional PDFs, which require full download before display. - **PDF-to-Scanned File Conversion**: Convert PDFs into high-definition scanned copies, safeguarding your content from unauthorized copying and tampering. Elevate your PDF experience—download PDF Dream Factory today!
PrivScanner
This app offers advanced offline AI scanning for documents and PPTs. It converts images to PDF and extracts text to Word, all processed locally for enhanced privacy. Enjoy unlimited, ad-free batch processing for efficient document management.
- Offline AI document and PPT scanning
- Batch image to PDF conversion
- Batch text extraction to Word
- Smart cropping and correction
- Privacy-focused local processing
- Ad-free experience
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PrivScanner: Next-Generation Offline AI Scanning Tool PrivScanner is an intelligent scanning application built for students, educators, and professionals. Capture lecture slides, meeting presentations, whiteboards, and paper documents — then export as searchable PDF, editable Word, or print-ready Reflow PDF. Key Features - High-Precision Offline OCR: Apple Vision-powered text recognition runs entirely on-device. No internet required, no data ever uploaded. - AI Smart Cropping & Perspective Correction: Automatically detects document edges and corrects perspective distortion, delivering clean, professional scans. - New OCR Preview: See recognized text overlaid directly on the document layout — true WYSIWYG before you export. - Three Pro Export Formats: - Searchable PDF: Preserves original layout with selectable, copyable, searchable text layer. - Editable Word (.docx): Text reflows into formatted paragraphs (12pt, first-line indent), ready for editing. - Reflow PDF: Auto-paginated to A4 with clean margins — perfect for reading and printing. - Batch Processing: OCR and export up to 50 images in one go, with real-time progress tracking. - Fast Image to PDF: Quick, free conversion of multiple images into a single PDF for easy storage and sharing. - EXIF-Aware Sorting: Photos are automatically sorted by capture time so your lecture notes stay in order. - Supports 10 system interface languages plus all recognition languages provided by the Vision framework. User Experience Principles - Privacy First: All processing happens locally on your device. Your photos and documents never leave your iPhone or iPad. - 100% Ad-Free: Minimalist, focused UI with zero advertisements, zero tracking, zero notifications. - Exceptional Performance: Native Swift development on iOS 16+. Compact, fast, and battery-friendly. Problems We Solve - Classroom & Lecture Capture: Snap photos of projected slides and whiteboards. PrivScanner auto-detects and crops screen areas, saving hours of manual editing. - Sensitive Document Scanning: Worried about cloud privacy? Every scan stays offline — ideal for confidential papers, contracts, and personal notes. - Bulk Digitization: Processing large handouts one by one is tedious. PrivScanner handles large batches in a single session, quickly and reliably. We Value Your Feedback If you have any suggestions or issues, please contact us via email: - afforwork@outlook.com Terms of Service and Privacy Policy - https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ - https://thinkworld.club/privacy6.html Thank you for choosing PrivScanner — your offline, private, and intelligent scanning companion.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: PrivScanner at 100% against PDF Factory Plus's 25%. PrivScanner also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 26 months) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). PDF Factory Plus's advantage is ratings volume (10 vs 1). 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. PDF Factory Plus sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and PrivScanner sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
PrivScanner holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: PDF Factory Plus has 10 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 25% of PDF Factory Plus's written reviews are positive against 100% of PrivScanner's.
PDF Factory Plus ships an update every 26 months, PrivScanner monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PDF Factory Plus | PrivScanner |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (10 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 25.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 10 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 26 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 61 MB | 18 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 路 张 | 楚云 徐 |
Customer experience
PDF Factory Plus
PrivScanner
In-app purchases
PDF Factory Plus
- PDF Factory PlusFree
PrivScanner
- Pro_Monthly3 Days trial$2.991 Month
- Pro_Annual3 Days trial$17.991 Year
- Pro_Lifetime$29.99
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