PaperScan vs RICOH Spaces
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PaperScan
Easily digitize various paper documents like invoices, receipts, and recipes. Automatically crop, straighten, and enhance scans for outstanding quality. Upload to cloud storage or share via email and print.
- Automatic document recognition and capture
- Automatic cropping and straightening
- Scans various document types
- High scan quality in any lighting
- Creates PDF files
- Batch upload to cloud storage
- Share via email, print, and AirDrop
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Scan invoices, business cards, tickets, cookbook recipes and all other kinds of paper documents with PaperScan. Upload them to Dropbox, GoogleDrive or DocuWare and share with others. PaperScan helps you to overcome your daily paper flood. And the best thing is - the app is both free and ad-free. Features: - Automatically recognizes documents and triggers image capture - Automatically crops and straightens the captured document - Scans all kinds of documents: big ones, small ones, invoices, receipts, tickets - you name it - Outstanding scan quality in any lighting conditions - Creates PDF - Upload to Dropbox, GoogleDrive and DocuWare in batch mode - Email, print and AirDrop for single documents - Simple and intuitive
RICOH Spaces
This workplace platform optimizes business operations by enabling desk and space bookings, providing wayfinding, and offering workplace insights. It requires activation by your organization to be used.
- Desk bookings
- Space bookings
- Wayfinding
- Workplace insights
- Cloud-hosted platform
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**Please note your organisation needs to have activated RICOH Spaces to use this app** RICOH Spaces is a cloud hosted workplace enhancement platform designed to optimise your business with areas such as desk bookings, space bookings, wayfinding, workplace insights and more.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: PaperScan at 71% against RICOH Spaces's 40%. PaperScan also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). RICOH Spaces's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 4 months). 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
PaperScan ships an update every 4 months, RICOH Spaces weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PaperScan | RICOH Spaces |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (747 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 70.9% of reviews — better | 40.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 747 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 23 MB | 144 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | DocuWare GmbH | Ricoh Europe PLC |
Customer experience
PaperScan
RICOH Spaces
Bugs and requests
PaperScan
Reported bugs
6 issues- Image disappears after scanning instead of displaying
- App freezes and requires multiple restarts to show scans
- Edge detection fails 50% of the time
- DocuWare integration not transferring documents properly
- Autoscan unreliable and inconsistent
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- Boundary re-registration issues after outline detection
Requested features
5 requests- Direct save to Photos app instead of Files only
- Improved edge detection algorithm
- Better autoscan reliability and speed
- Manual brightness control options
- UI/design improvements
RICOH Spaces
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
PaperScan
No in-app purchases
RICOH Spaces
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is PaperScan free?
Is RICOH Spaces free?
Do PaperScan or RICOH Spaces have ads?
Which is updated more often, PaperScan or RICOH Spaces?
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