PDF Craft vs PDF Reader Mate

PDF Craft is a local-first PDF workspace for creating, merging, recognizing, organizing, viewing, and protecting documents on iPhone and iPad. Use PDF Craft when you need to capture paper pages, turn photos into PDFs, import existing files, combine documents, recognize text, or keep sensitive PDFs organized in one place. Key features: - Scan paper documents, notes, receipts, and everyday pages into PDFs. - Convert selected photos into a single PDF document. - Import PDF files from Files into your local document library. - Merge multiple PDFs into one new document and keep the selected order clear. - Recognize text from a camera scan or selected image using on-device text recognition. - Review and edit recognized text, copy it, or create a text-based PDF. - Manage documents with recent files, favorites, filters, search, sharing, and deletion. - Open PDFs in a native viewer with page navigation, thumbnails, sharing, page insertion, and protection actions. - Protect sensitive documents with a password workflow and App Privacy Lock with Face ID where available. - Keep core document workflows local to the device; export or share files only when you choose. PDF Craft is designed for daily document work: class notes, receipts, forms, travel documents, contracts, invoices, and personal archives.

PDF Reader Mate — Scan, OCR, Annotate & Convert, All in One   PDF Reader Mate is a lightweight yet powerful PDF toolkit. From scanning paper documents to extracting text with OCR, annotating PDFs, and exporting as images — everything happens in one app. No sign-up required. Open and go.   Scan to PDF Use your camera to scan documents, whiteboards, business cards, or receipts. Auto-crop and generate PDFs instantly.   Smart OCR Text Extraction Extract text from scanned documents and images with OCR technology. Copy text to your clipboard with one tap.   Modify & Annotate Your PDFs Mark up PDFs exactly the way you need — highlight, underline, strikethrough, add freehand drawings, or insert text boxes. Crop pages, delete unwanted pages, and save your changes.   PDF to Long Image & Multi-Page Images Export an entire PDF as one scrolling long image for social sharing, or export each page individually. Batch export and choose which pages to convert — complete control.   Why PDF Reader Mate?   Complete workflow — scan → OCR → annotate → convert to image. No app switching   Privacy first — no account needed, documents stay on your device   Free to use — core features are completely free