Mobile Doc Scanner (MDScan) + OCR is an Android and iOS application for scanning documents that also includes Optical Character Recognition (OCR). The app is temporarily free on the Google Play Store, instead of €5.49, it’s our free app of the day.
- Promotions on the Play Store Expires in 2 days
- Mobile Document Scanner does not contain ads or in-app purchases
- It has a 4.3 rating based on 20,000 reviews and over 500,000 downloads
I remind you that this app is only temporarily free. On the Play Store, the promotion will expire in 2 days. The App Store doesn’t specify any duration. So if you look up this article a few days after it was published, the app may be billed again. kwgeek does not control price fluctuations in the app store.
Why is this free app worth it?
Mobile Doc Scanner is a productivity or office automation Android app for scanning your documents, you guessed it. There are many such apps on the Play Store. But not all of them offer OCR, or Optical Character Recognition, which recognizes letters in a document to extract them from the document.
The app allows you to scan documents from files or directly from the camera. For example, you can batch scan a multi-page document. For each scan, the app offers several filters to improve the quality of the document, and you obviously have all the necessary cutting and cropping tools.
The Mobile Doc Scanner MDScan + OCR app lacks some intuitiveness, but is feature-rich / © kwgeek
You can also annotate scan results and even sign them. Everything is done locally on your smartphone and you can disable the app to keep the originals.
The OCR feature is great for printed or typed characters, but forget to recognize your handwritten notes. I also found the activation of OCR to be less intuitive. You have to activate it via settings, select the correct module for your language (Tesseract or Google), then scan the document, save it, select it, go to the preview and finally you will see the button to continue. ‘OCR.
Other than that, the interface is very clean, there are no ads, the app contains no in-app purchases, and doesn’t require you to create an account.
Does this free app respect your personal data?
On the Play Store, the developers of MDScan (STOIK Soft or Mikhail Kuznetsov) do not state anything in the privacy section. On the App Store, it says no personal data is connected.
Reviewing it through the exodus privacy platform, we can see that MDScan includes an analytics tracker for Google Firebase, and of course for log data.
The app also requires 15 permissions, the most sensitive of which are accessing your camera, reading and writing to your storage. Considering the functionality of the app, they are not overly intrusive in my opinion.
Finally, MDScan + OCR is rated 4.3 stars in over 20,000 reviews and over 500,000 downloads on the Play Store.
What do you think of this app? Did you test it? What application do you use to scan your documents?