Comparison

PDF OCR vs 全球翼讯通

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

Head to head
About

PDF OCR

This app transforms your iPhone or iPad into a powerful PDF tool. Scan documents, recognize and edit text, convert files, and sign PDFs all on your device. It offers advanced features for annotation, measurement, and protection.

Highlights
  • Document scanning and text recognition (OCR)
  • Edit text and images directly on the page
  • Convert between PDF, Word, and Office formats
  • Annotate with pens, highlighters, and shapes
  • Fill and sign PDF forms
  • Measure drawings to scale
  • Password protection and redaction
Features
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PDF OCR is the all-in-one PDF app for iPhone and iPad. Scan paper into searchable PDFs, read and mark up any document, edit text right on the page, measure drawings to scale, and convert between PDF, Word and Office files. Everything runs on your device, with no account and no uploads. SCAN & RECOGNIZE TEXT (OCR) • Document scanner: edges are found and pages are straightened for you • Text recognition: scans become searchable, selectable PDFs • Recognize text in scanned PDFs you already have • Scan many pages at once, then reorder, rotate or remove them • Read QR codes • Put two pages on one, like both sides of an ID card • Smart file names suggested from what was scanned (Pro) READ IN COMFORT • Fast viewer with search, contents and bookmarks • Continuous scroll, single page or two-page spread • Reading View: the text reflowed to fit your screen, in your size, font and theme • Night mode and read aloud • Opens where you left off; recent documents appear in Spotlight ANNOTATE & MARK UP • Pen and highlighter, smooth with Apple Pencil • Highlight, underline and strike through text • Notes, shapes, arrows, polygons and stamps • Select anything you added to move or resize it, with undo EDIT PDF LIKE A DOCUMENT (PRO) • Edit text right where it is, in the document's own fonts • Move, delete and add text and images • Redaction removes sensitive text and images for good MEASURE DRAWINGS (PRO) • Distance, perimeter, area and count on plans and drawings • Drawing scales such as 1:100, or calibrate to a length you know • Snaps to corners; totals and CSV export FILL & SIGN • Fill in PDF forms • Draw your signature once and place it on any document • Sign contracts, invoices and applications without a printer CONVERT • PDF to Word (Pro), images, text and RTF • Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Pages and Keynote files to PDF • Photos and web pages to PDF ORGANIZE & OPTIMIZE • Merge PDFs and images; split by selected pages, ranges or every N pages • Reorder, rotate, insert, crop and delete pages • Compress PDFs to make them smaller • Flatten annotations and forms, and print PROTECT • Protect PDFs with a password • Change permissions or remove security (Pro) • Watermarks and page numbers (Pro) • Lock the app with Face ID (Pro) SMART TOOLS, ON YOUR DEVICE • Summaries with Apple Intelligence (Pro; iOS 26 on supported devices) • Page translation (Pro) • Shortcuts actions for OCR, compression and merging (Pro) PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your documents never leave your device. Scanning, text recognition, editing, conversion and summaries all happen on the device. No account, and no watermark on your files. PDF OCR PRO Reading, markup, signatures, scanning and most tools are free, and OCR is free for up to 30 pages per document. Pro adds OCR without page limits, editing text and images, PDF to Word, measuring, advanced split, redaction, watermarks and page numbers, Face ID lock, smart file names, summaries and translation, and Shortcuts actions. Choose monthly, yearly with a 7-day free trial, or a one-time lifetime purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and can be managed in Settings › Apple Account › Subscriptions. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://layerz.app/pdfocr/privacy

About

全球翼讯通

Features
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全球翼讯通 APP 是基于中国电信国际公司全球翼讯通平台打造的移动客户端,核心为企业用户提供移动化的企业语音客服、文字客服及内部通信服务,并集成 SD-WAN 网络加速能力,保障随时随地、高质量、低延迟的通信与协作体验。 APP 核心功能涵盖登录鉴权、文字客服、语音客服及基础信息设置,全面适配企业移动办公场景需求。

Screenshots

PDF OCR4 screens
全球翼讯通4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: 全球翼讯通 at none against PDF OCR's 3. 全球翼讯通 also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads 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. PDF OCR sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. 全球翼讯通 asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
PDF OCR versus 全球翼讯通: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPDF OCR全球翼讯通
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (7 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings7 — better—
Update frequencyMonthly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS17.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size9 MB66 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperLayerz Corp.China Telecom Global Limited

In-app purchases

3 purchases

PDF OCR

Subscriptions2
  • PDF OCR Pro Monthly$3.991 Month
  • PDF OCR Pro Yearly7 Days trial$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • PDF OCR Pro Lifetime$49.99
None

全球翼讯通

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is PDF OCR free?
PDF OCR is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is 全球翼讯通 free?
全球翼讯通 is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do PDF OCR or 全球翼讯通 have ads?
Neither PDF OCR nor 全球翼讯通 shows ads.

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