FineReader vs Scan & Print
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
FineReader
Transform your mobile device into a powerful scanner for documents and books. Extract text from images with advanced OCR technology, create editable digital copies, and share them easily. Organize and annotate your scanned files with intelligent features.
- Scan documents and books
- Offline and online OCR
- Extract text to TXT
- Save as PDF and JPEG
- Share to cloud storage
- Annotate PDFs
- Automatic document classification
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ABBYY FineReader PDF - the first smart AI-powered scanner that turns your mobile device into an all-purpose tool to quickly capture docs and books, create electronic copies in PDF and JPEG, and extract texts from scans for further editing and sharing. FineReader PDF - the top mobile scanner for iPhone or iPad from ABBYY, a Digital Intelligence company. *** Ranked #1 Business application in 98 countries *** *** Winner of SUPERSTAR Award in the "Document Capture" category in the Mobile Star Awards *** Use FineReader PDF to scan paper documents, books, agreements, receipts, magazine articles, notes, recipes, charts, tables, slides, whiteboards, or even billboards on the street and get perfect digital copies. KEY FEATURES • PDF & JPEG. Scan any text and save scans to JPEG images or cross-platform PDF documents. • OFFLINE OCR. Quickly extract text from scans into TXT format on your device without an internet connection. • ONLINE OCR. Recognize text (OCR) on scans in 183 languages (including Latin, Cyrillic, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean alphabets) and choose from among 4 output formats. • SHARE & EXPORT. Send results by email, to FineReader PDF for Windows, save in cloud storages - iCloud Drive, Dropbox, Google Drive, Yandex.Disk, Evernote, OneDrive for Business, and more. • LIVE TEXT. Make phone calls, send emails, follow the links, and more from scanned docs. • ABBYY NEURAL NETWORK. The smart gallery will automatically classify documents into 7 types: A4, books, business cards, handwritten, IDs, other docs, and receipts. • SEARCH TEXT ON PHOTOS. Type the text from a photo into a Search field in the gallery. FineReader PDF will find photos that have this text. • AR RULER. Define doc size in AR. It will be useful for non-standard documents and further printing them out in proper proportions. • SIRI SHORTCUTS. Open scans with Siri and set the flow of actions with scans using Shortcuts app. • ANNOTATE SCANS. Discover a set of easy-to-use tools to modify your PDFs: add your signature or a text box, use a highlighter, write with a pen, or conceal content with the redaction tool. • 3D TOUCH & SPOTLIGHT SEARCH SUPPORT. • PASSWORD ON PDF. Add a password for the image-only PDF files while exporting and sending via email. • MULTIPAGE DOCS. Create, edit, and enhance separate images or large multi-page documents without any additional selection on the viewfinder. • AUTO-CAPTURE AND FILTERS. Excellent visual quality with auto-capture of page boundaries and advanced image filters, which process scans in color, greyscale, or black-and-white versions. • BUILT-IN FILE STORAGE. Save scans inside the app with tags and search capabilities. • Transfer docs to your Mac or PC using Home Sharing. • AIRPRINT. Print out scans directly from your iPhone or iPad. Read us: abbyy.com/blog/mobile Facebook.com/ABBYYsoft Twitter @ABBYY_Software YouTube.com/ABBYYvideos Do you like FineReader PDF? Please leave a review!
Scan & Print
Easily digitize, enhance, and copy documents and photos. Extract text for searchable PDFs and print high-quality copies directly from your device. Offers automatic edge detection and image optimization for sharp results.
- Automatic edge detection and image enhancement
- Text recognition for searchable PDFs
- Remove punched holes and unwanted content
- High-resolution scanning up to 8000 pixels
- Direct high-quality printing
- Multi-language text recognition
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Welcome to a world where scanning documents and photos has become much easier! Our innovative scanner app offers a variety of outstanding features to digitize, enhance, and copy your documents and photos. An important feature of our app is the extraordinary enhancement of scanned documents. Whether it's old photos, contracts, invoices, or other important documents, the app automatically detects the edges of the document or photo and optimizes the image quality to deliver sharp results. The text recognition technology of our app is a real highlight. After scanning a document, the app extracts the text and allows you to convert the documents directly into searchable PDF files. You can search the content of the created PDF files for any terms, greatly facilitating organization and access to important information. But that's not all! Our app offers an intelligent feature to automatically remove punched holes from scanned documents. Additionally, you can effortlessly remove unwanted content from your documents using an eraser tool. Our app ensures that your documents always look perfect. The documents and photos created by our app impress with exceptional quality. With a resolution of up to 8000 pixels, you capture every detail sharply and obtain high-resolution documents and photos that meet professional standards. In addition to digital processing, our app allows you to print images and documents in high quality directly from the app. Discover the future of document scanning and download our scanner app today. Scan, enhance, print, and share documents and photos with ease and enjoy the benefits of an intuitive and powerful app. The text recognition currently supports the following languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Cantonese, Korean, Japanese, Russian, Ukrainian. Important: Text recognition is not always 100% accurate. The text should be reviewed and corrected by the user before creating a PDF file. In the free version, only one image per document can be used. You can permanently remove this limitation by making a one-time in-app purchase. This app includes advertising, which can also be completely and permanently removed through an in-app purchase.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: FineReader at none against Scan & Print's shown. FineReader also leads on ratings volume (19K vs 2) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). Scan & Print's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 71%) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). On price, update cadence, 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. FineReader sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Scan & Print sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Scan & Print holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: FineReader has 19K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 71% of FineReader's written reviews are positive against 100% of Scan & Print's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | FineReader | Scan & Print |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (19K ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 70.8% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 19K — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Monthly |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 130 MB | 120 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ABBYY USA Software House Inc | Vitalij Schaefer |
Customer experience
FineReader
Scan & Print
Bugs and requests
FineReader
Reported bugs
3 issues- Frequent crashes when switching between apps
- Unreliable auto-capture feature
- Issues with sending scans via email
Requested features
4 requests- Ability to edit scanned documents
- Support for multi-page PDF scanning
- Improved edge detection for curved documents
- Offline OCR processing option
Scan & Print
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
FineReader
- [ARCHIVE]Entry Premium monthly7 Days trial$2.991 Month
- Scan PDF and documents7 Days trial$2.991 Month
- [ARCHIVE]Basic Premium monthly7 Days trial$3.991 Month
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- ARCHIVE-Advanced Premium month7 Days trial$5.991 Month
- PDF Scanner + OCR7 Days trial$5.991 Month
- FineScanner Premium monthly7 Days trial$7.991 Month
- PDF Scanner$9.991 Year
- Photo Scanning app14 Days trial$20.991 Year
- FineScanner Premium yearly$29.991 Year
- [ARCHIVE] No Ads$5.99
Scan & Print
- Remove ads$17.99
- Unlock all images$17.99
- Unlock all and remove ads$34.99








