RME: PDF & Document Scanner

RME: PDF & Document Scanner is a private, local-first Android scanner for turning paper documents into clean PDFs, searchable text and an organized document library.

Scan documents, import existing PDFs, recognize text on-device, search across your library, correct OCR mistakes and export standard PDF files — without an RME account, ads, tracking or an RME cloud backend.

PRIVATE BY DESIGN

• No account required
• No ads
• No tracking or analytics
• No RME cloud backend
• Your document library stays on your device
• Standard Android sharing and file access

MULTILINGUAL ON-DEVICE OCR

Recognize text directly on your device.

• Latin-script languages including English, Romanian, German, French, Italian and Spanish
• Chinese
• Japanese
• Korean
• Devanagari, including Hindi, Marathi and Nepali

Latin OCR is built in. Additional OCR models can be downloaded through Google Play services and then used on-device.

FIND ANYTHING IN YOUR DOCUMENTS

Search titles, metadata and recognized text across your entire RME library.

Search results can show the matching text and page, so you can jump directly to where the information appears.

REVIEW AND CORRECT OCR

OCR is not always perfect. RME lets you review recognized text, correct mistakes and keep your edits.

You can also:
• Re-run OCR on a page or document
• Choose a different OCR language
• Process multiple documents with batch OCR
• Keep manual corrections when OCR is run again

SEARCHABLE PDFs

Create PDFs with a searchable text layer while keeping the original scanned page appearance.

RME supports multilingual searchable PDFs and uses your corrected OCR text where possible.

SCAN AND ORGANIZE

• Scan documents to PDF
• Import PDF files
• Organize documents in folders and subfolders
• Rename and move documents
• Search your library
• Work with long and multi-page documents

PDF TOOLS

• Merge PDFs
• Split or extract pages
• Extract recognized text
• Create searchable PDFs
• Export documents as standard files

MOVE FROM ANOTHER SCANNER

Bring existing scans into RME using Android sharing or the system file picker.

Guided migration is available for:
• CamScanner
• Adobe Scan / Acrobat
• Genius Scan
• Microsoft Lens
• Other scanner apps

BACKUP AND RESTORE

Keep control of your document library.

• Create a complete portable RME backup
• Restore your library later
• Optionally encrypt backups with a password
• Move your library to a new phone
• Export your library as standard files

DEVICE SECURITY

Optionally lock RME using your Android device authentication, including supported biometrics or device credentials.

SMART LOCAL FEATURES

RME can use recognized text locally to suggest useful document names, such as an invoice, receipt or insurance document name.

Suggestions remain optional — RME never silently renames your documents.

BUILT FOR DOCUMENT OWNERSHIP

RME is designed for people who want a capable PDF scanner without being locked into a proprietary cloud service.

Scan, search, organize, back up and export your documents while keeping control of your files.

Recent changes:
What’s new in v1.6.0

• Multilingual on-device OCR.
• Review, correct and re-run OCR.
• Search your whole library and jump to matching pages.
• Batch OCR and smart document naming.
• Better searchable PDFs.
• Move scans from CamScanner, Adobe Scan, Genius Scan and Microsoft Lens.
• Backup, restore, phone transfer and app lock.