RME: Private PDF Scanner is a free, open-source Android scanner built around privacy, local processing and document ownership.
Scan documents, import PDFs and images, recognize text on-device, search your library and create searchable PDFs without uploading documents to an RME server.
Key features:
• Multi-page scanning
• Multilingual on-device OCR
• OCR review and correction
• Full-text document search
• Searchable PDFs
• Merge, split and extract PDF pages
• Share-Safe copies with blackout redaction and watermarks
• Fit PDFs to upload-size limits
• Two-sided ID/card copy
• Folders, backup/restore and app lock
Privacy by design:
• No account required
• No ads or tracking
• No RME cloud backend
• No INTERNET or ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE permission requested by the app
Licensed under Apache 2.0. Available on Google Play and GitHub.
Features
- On-Device Document Scanning
- Multilingual On-Device OCR
- Searchable PDF Creation
- PDF Import and Export
- PDF Merge, Split and Page Extraction
- Text Extraction
- Document and Folder Management
- OCR Review and Correction
- Privacy-First Local Processing
- No Ads or Tracking
- Open-Source Android Application
- Full-Text Document Search
- Image Import
- Page Extraction
- Share-Safe Copies
- Irreversible Blackout Redaction
- PDF Watermarking
- Fit PDFs to Upload Size Limits
- Two-Sided ID / Card Copy
- Folders/Subfolders explicit
- Backup and Restore
- App Lock with Device Authentication
- No RME Cloud Backend