LocalScan Box vs PDF Scanner
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side β with what reviewers say about each.
LocalScan Box
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Snap a bill, an insurance policy or a passport, and LocalScan Box finds the date that matters β the payment due date, the expiry date, the end of a warranty β and reminds you ahead of time. LocalScan Box reads document dates on your device, shows the source line and lets you check them before setting reminders. No account needed. READS THE DATE FROM THE PAPER β’ Payment due dates on bills and invoices β’ Expiry dates on passports β’ The end date of an insurance policy, a lease or a contract β’ Warranty end dates, worked out from the purchase date and the warranty period β’ Reads documents in English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Korean and Chinese β’ When the paper does not make it clear whether 03/04 means March 4 or April 3, the date is shown for you to check before anything is added β’ No date on the paper? Add it yourself in a few taps REMINDERS TIMED FOR EACH DOCUMENT β’ Passport: 12 months and 6 months before it expires β’ Insurance policy: 2 months, 1 month and 1 week before it ends β’ Warranty: 1 month and 1 week before it ends β’ Bills: 3 days before and on the due date β’ Contracts and leases: 3 months and 1 month before they end β’ School forms: the day before and on the day β’ Anything else: 1 week and 1 day before Choose the time of day you get reminders in Settings. YOUR NEXT DEADLINE, FIRST β’ The home screen shows your next deadline and how many days are left β’ See this month's deadlines, how many you are tracking, and how many you finished before the deadline β’ The Deadlines tab sorts everything into Past deadlines, This month, Within 3 months and Later. Mark items done when you finish them β’ Open a deadline to change its date, see when you will be reminded, or go to the document behind it THE WHOLE FAMILY'S PAPERWORK β’ Note whose document it is and keep the family's deadlines in one list (adding family members is Pro) MEDICATION REMINDERS Enter a medicine and reminder times in Meds. Record each dose as "Taken" or choose "Remind me in 10 min". Free: one active medicine for yourself. Pro: unlimited medicines, including separate records for family members. The app does not calculate doses and is not a medical device. Check instructions with your doctor or pharmacist. Medication data is not sent to us or external AI services. It is included in device backups. SCAN AND ORGANIZE β’ Scanner with automatic edge detection and multi-page capture β’ Export searchable PDFs β’ Handwritten signatures with your finger (or Apple Pencil on iPad) β’ Folders and tags, and a Face ID / Touch ID lock β’ Add a contact from a business card FREE AND PRO Free: scanning and saving, unlimited text recognition and date reading, folders and tags, and reminders for up to 3 deadlines. Reminders for one medicine you currently take. Pro: reminders for as many deadlines as you need, family members, full-text search inside every document, receipt totals with CSV export, PDF merge, split and compress, and bulk export. Unlimited medicines, including those of family members. PRIVACY β’ Your documents and everything read from them are stored on your device. Nothing is sent to our servers β’ Sending text to an outside service only happens if you turn that feature on in Advanced settings (it is off by default) Developed by revot Inc. Support: https://revot.jp/contact.html LocalScan Box Pro (in-app purchases) β’ Monthly and yearly auto-renewing subscriptions, and a one-time lifetime purchase (no auto-renewal). Prices are shown in the app. β’ The yearly plan includes a 7-day free trial for new subscribers. β’ Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period (including the free trial). Payment is charged to your Apple Account; manage or cancel anytime in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://revot.jp/apps/localscanbox/privacy.html
PDF Scanner
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Lumi is the privacy-first PDF Scanner for iPhone. Open the app, point at any document, and Lumi auto-captures, dewarps, and saves a clean scan β all on your device. No accounts. No cloud. No tracking. WHY PEOPLE CHOOSE LUMI PDF SCANNER Truly on-device. Unlike every other PDF Scanner you've tried, Lumi has no server. Your scans never leave your iPhone β there's nothing to upload, no account to sign in to, nothing for us to see. Auto-detect, instantly. Point your camera at a document and Lumi locks on. Hold steady for half a second and the scan happens β no shutter to press, no edges to drag. Crystal-clear results. Built on Apple's Vision framework, every PDF Scanner result is perspective-corrected (dewarped), exposure-balanced, and sharpened to make text leap off the page. Smart manual controls. If auto-detect misses, tap the shutter button. Want to scan a screenshot or an old photo? The Photos picker imports any image and Lumi treats it like a fresh scan. EVERYTHING A MODERN PDF SCANNER SHOULD DO Multi-page documents β Capture page after page; Lumi groups them into one document and exports a single, sorted PDF. Tap Finish when you're done. OCR text recognition β Pull selectable, searchable text out of any scan. Works on printed pages, handwriting, and stylized fonts. OCR runs locally with Apple's on-device intelligence β no server, no API calls, no content ever leaves the device. Live Text everywhere β Open any scan in History. Pinch to zoom, select text directly on the image, copy it, look it up, or translate it. Just like iOS Notes, baked into every Lumi scan. Merge to one PDF β Pick any number of scans from your History, tap Merge to PDF, and Lumi combines them into a single document, sorted by date, ready to share via the iOS share sheet. Edit Text β Cover any printed text with a tap-and-drag rectangle and type a replacement. Perfect for fixing a typo, redacting a name, or correcting a misread scan. Sharp filter for text-heavy pages β Brings the words forward without losing color, like a high-quality photocopy. B&W filter creates a clean monochrome look. Use whichever matches the document. Crop, Rotate, Mirror β Drag corners to trim black edges. Rotate left, right, or mirror in one tap. Even fix a sideways A4 capture after the fact. PRIVACY IS THE WHOLE POINT Most PDF Scanner apps quietly upload your documents to "AI servers" or "cloud OCR services." Lumi doesn't. Camera frames are processed in-memory using Apple's Vision and Core Image. The final JPEG is stored only in Lumi's private sandbox on your iPhone. OCR runs on-device. PDF export happens on-device. The only network calls Lumi ever makes are to Apple's StoreKit, when you choose to subscribe. FREE VS PREMIUM Lumi is free to try with 3 lifetime scans β enough to see why it's the cleanest PDF Scanner on iPhone. Unlock Premium to remove the limit and enable: Unlimited scans OCR text recognition PDF export (single and multi-page) Multi-page document scanning Merge multiple scans into one PDF Sharp and B&W filters Edit Text Crop, Rotate, Mirror SUBSCRIPTIONS Weekly Premium β $9.99 per week, auto-renews Yearly Premium β $39.99 per year with a 3-day free trial, auto-renews Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions auto-renew unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel in iOS Settings β your Apple ID β Subscriptions. Terms of Use: https://try2.app/pdf-scanner-scan-docs-lumi-terms Privacy Policy: https://try2.app/pdf-scanner-scan-docs-lumi-privacy
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Verdict
LocalScan Box and PDF Scanner are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters β price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them β neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS
Both are free to download. LocalScan Box sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and PDF Scanner sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | LocalScan Box | PDF Scanner |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | β |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad β better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 17.6 |
| Further details β not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | REVOT, K.K. | TRY2 APPS |
In-app purchases
LocalScan Box
- LocalScan Box Pro Monthly$2.991 Month
- LocalScan Box Pro Yearly7 Days trial$22.991 Year
- LocalScan Box Pro Lifetime$46.99
PDF Scanner
- PDF Scanner - Lumi Weekly$9.997 Days
- PDF Scanner - Lumi Yearly3 Days trial$39.991 Year








