vFlat Scan - PDF Scanner, OCR
★ 4.3What it actually doesApp for scanning physical books into PDF using neural networks for page straightening and text recognition (OCR), but most core features became paid after the initial release.
Actually does
- ✓PDF viewer
- ✓OCR / Document scan60% of reviews
- ✓Document scanner70% of reviews
- ✓PDF editor50% of reviews
- ✓Выпрямление изогнутых страниц (AI)40% of reviews
- ✓Subscription80% of reviews
- ✓Camera40% of reviews
Claimed, but not confirmed by reviews
- ⚠No telemetry
Common complaints
- ✗Core functions moved to paid subscription70% of mentions
«I installed it when it first came out and everything was great, now everything costs money, even the desktop icon asks for money»
- ✗Low free-tier limits (10 pages in PDF)50% of mentions
«I scanned 119 pages, but only 10 are free in PDF. Wasted my time»
- ✗High subscription cost60% of mentions
«I use something like this a couple times a month, but the price is as if for every single day, jerks»
- ✗No instructions for basic functions (especially OCR)20% of mentions
«But it temporarily converts text to OCR... There are no instructions either»
- ✗Poor text recognition quality on some devices15% of mentions
«It recognized very poorly and made mistakes»
What people praise
- ★High quality scanning and image processing
«With proper camera positioning, it makes exact copies 1 to 1»
- ★Effective page straightening with AI
«Scans well and recognizes text in books»
- ★Fast book scanning
«Got an electronic copy of a children's book in 15 minutes»
- ★Ease and convenience of use
«one of the best apps I found for convenient scanning»
- ★No ads
«no ads»