RME: PDF & Document Scanner
RME: PDF & Document Scanner is a privacy-first Android document scanner with offline OCR, searchable PDFs, local processing, and user-controlled export.
PageHarbor is now RME: PDF & Document Scanner. The product and its privacy-first principles remain the same; only the public name has changed.
Purpose
Explain what RME PDF Scanner does, its current availability, and its privacy-first operating model.
Who it is for
Android users installing RME PDF Scanner
Android users evaluating local document-scanning workflows
Security, privacy, and compliance reviewers
Prerequisites
Android 8 (API 26) or later
RME PDF Scanner installed from Google Play, or a developer build from the open-source repository
Non-sensitive sample documents for testing
Current availability
RME: PDF & Document Scanner is publicly available on Google Play. Current version: 1.2.0.
Product page
Website: RME PDF Scanner
Capability summary
Scan up to 20 pages in one scanner session with Google ML Kit Document Scanner
Import page images from the gallery
Create a normal PDF or export individual JPEG pages
Share a PDF using the Android Sharesheet
Run bundled, offline Latin-script OCR and select recognized text
Copy recognized text only through the explicit Copy Text action
Generate searchable PDFs locally
Suggest safe, category-based filenames for searchable-PDF saves
Choose export destinations through Android's Storage Access Framework (SAF)
RME PDF Scanner requires no account and has no ads, app-operated analytics or tracking, proprietary document-processing backend, or persistent document library. Its open-source code is available under the Apache License 2.0. Google ML Kit has separate technical diagnostic disclosures; see Privacy and support.
Common issues
A scanner session is limited to 20 pages; start another session for additional pages.
Use non-sensitive documents during testing and do not rely on RME PDF Scanner as a document archive.
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