Show HN: I built an iOS scanner because every other one wanted a subscription

Category: other

Tags: ios, document-scanner, privacy-focused

Score: 6.0/10 (Innovation: 4, Technical: 6, Documentation: 7, Utility: 7)

Pocket Scanner is a native iOS document scanner that captures and OCRs documents into searchable PDFs, syncing via iCloud Drive with no subscriptions or data collection. Its technical approach using only Apple frameworks and embedding OCR text as invisible glyphs in PDFs is clean, but it's an incremental improvement over existing scanner apps.

Target audience: general users

Repository: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pocket-scanner/id6773036432 · Swift

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