Piksoft
For professionals and individuals requiring high-quality, portable digitization of physical documents for business or personal record-keeping.
TurboScan™ Pro: PDF scanner
Snapshot
Who is Piksoft?
Providing professionals with high-fidelity document digitization tools to replace physical hardware with mobile-first scanning solutions.
Target audience
Portfolio
Free 3Last updated
TurboScan™ Pro: PDF scanner
v3.4.1
6mo ago
Publisher DNA
What defines Piksoft?
Publisher DNA
Primary focus
Mobile document scanning and productivity tools
Scale
indie
Target audience
Professionals and individuals requiring high-quality, portable digitization of physical documents for business or personal record-keeping.
Signature Patterns
- •Focus on high-precision image processing and edge detection algorithms
- •Monetization via a one-time paid purchase model rather than recurring subscriptions
- •Long-term maintenance and iterative updates of a single high-performing utility
- •Targeting professional users needing offline-first document management
Portfolio momentum
Actively developing with 3 releases in the last 6 months and the flagship title updated within the last 10 days.
Company profile
low confidence- Founded
- 2009
Portfolio
What does Piksoft ship?
Apps
6 apps analysed
The easiest way to scan and fax from phone (or fax existing PDFs).
TurboScan turns your phone into a full-featured and powerful document scanner.
Distributed across 10 markets, strongest in Europe.
Based on 2 of 6 apps with localized market data, more coverage rolling in as scans complete · last scanned .
Americas (3)
- United States2 / 2
- Brazil1 / 2
- Mexico1 / 2
Europe (5)
- France1 / 2
- Germany1 / 2
- Italy1 / 2
- Portugal1 / 2
- Spain1 / 2
Asia-Pacific (2)
- Japan1 / 2
- South Korea1 / 2
Core markets (2/2 apps)
Rivals
Who does Piksoft compete with?
The rivals identified
Nemeses(3)
Docutain competes with TurboScan™ Pro by targeting the same home-office audience with a freemium model and specialized document management features.
AI Scanner competes directly with Perfect OCR by offering a free, high-volume alternative for document scanning and text extraction. The rival captures the same audience of students and professionals through a broader feature set that includes AI-driven document analysis.
Both apps target professionals and students needing mobile document digitization, but Scanner App captures the price-sensitive segment with a free model while TurboScan + OCR maintains a paid-only barrier.
Contenders(24)
EasyScan offers a privacy-focused alternative to Perfect OCR for users who prioritize offline-only document scanning.
Scanner HD competes with TurboScan + OCR by offering a free alternative that targets the same document digitization audience with overlapping core functionality like multi-page scanning and OCR.
known for
Text Capture: Image to Text
Both applications target users needing to digitize physical text, creating direct competition for the same productivity-focused user base.
Both applications target students and professionals for document digitization, competing directly through shared document scanning and text recognition functionality.
Both apps compete for the same mobile document digitization audience, forcing a choice between a paid utility and a free alternative.
Both applications target the same professional and student demographic for digitizing physical documents, creating direct competition for the same user base.
Both apps target professionals and individuals needing mobile document digitization, competing directly for the same utility-focused user base.
Both apps target professionals and students needing to digitize physical documents, creating direct competition for the same user base despite the pricing difference.
Both applications target professionals and students requiring mobile document digitization, with overlapping functionality in OCR and PDF export formats.
Both applications target professionals and students needing mobile document digitization, creating direct competition for users seeking efficient paper-to-digital workflows.
Both apps target users needing document digitization and text extraction, competing directly on the utility of converting physical media to digital text.
Both applications target professionals and students requiring mobile document digitization, with overlapping core functionality in PDF and JPEG export. The rival competes directly by offering a free alternative to the paid TurboScan + OCR model.
Both apps target users digitizing physical documents into PDFs, creating direct competition for the same mobile productivity workflow.
Both apps target professionals and students needing mobile document digitization, creating direct competition for the same user base despite different monetization models.
Both apps target professionals and students needing document digitization, with Scan to PDF competing directly via a free-to-use model versus the paid model of TurboScan + OCR.
Both apps target professionals managing document workflows, creating direct competition for users who need to digitize and retrieve information from physical or digital files.
Both applications target users needing to digitize physical documents through mobile scanning and text extraction. They compete directly for the same productivity-focused audience by offering overlapping document-to-text conversion functionality.
Both applications target professionals and students requiring mobile document digitization, creating direct competition for the same user base within the business utility category.
Both applications target professionals and students requiring document digitization, creating direct competition for the same user base through overlapping core scanning functionality.
Both apps target students and professionals needing to digitize documents, creating direct competition for the same user base despite different monetization models.
Both applications target mobile users requiring document digitization for receipts, contracts, and business cards.
Both apps target professionals and field workers needing mobile document digitization, with Tiny Scanner competing for the same user base through a broader feature set including AI analysis and encryption.
Both applications target professionals and students requiring mobile document digitization, competing directly for the same productivity-focused user base.
Both applications target professionals and individuals digitizing physical documents, competing directly for the same mobile scanning workflow.
Same space(47)
Competes for the same productivity-focused users by emphasizing on-device privacy.
Adobe Scan competes for the same professional document-digitization workflow but uses cloud-based storage integration to force user retention.
iLovePDF addresses the same productivity needs as Perfect OCR, offering a similar OCR toolset but with a higher frequency of feature updates.
Clear Scan functions as a direct alternative for casual users seeking a fast, one-touch scanning experience.
CamScanner serves the same professional segment as Perfect OCR, offering OCR and conversion tools to replace office hardware.
CamScanner serves the same professional audience as Perfect OCR but provides a broader cloud-sync utility that creates a more comprehensive office-in-pocket experience.
Turbo PDF - Read & Manage serves as a simple utility for organizing and bookmarking scanned documents.
TapScanner serves the same document-capture audience but adds a broader PDF toolkit for merging and signing files.
Simple Scan overlaps with the TurboScan audience but uses fax integration to capture legacy business document workflows.
Scanner App provides a secure, mobile-first digitization path that competes for the same business-critical document management audience.
Provides a high-volume alternative that integrates directly into the Adobe Document Cloud.
Serves privacy-conscious users who require local-only processing without account sign-ups.
Provides a tool for extracting text from images and PDFs for students and professionals.
Targets privacy-focused iPhone users who need local-first document summarization.
Targets professional users with specialized AI-driven scanning modes.
Instant PDF Reader provides a minimalist alternative for users focused solely on reading large PDF files.
This app provides a similar document viewer and scanner utility for the same audience as Perfect OCR.
PDF Reader&Editor serves as a secondary productivity suite for users who need to annotate and sign files after scanning.
Dext functions as an adjacent financial tool that automates the expense tracking workflow for users who already use scanners for receipt management.
PDF Reader acts as a post-scan utility for users who need to view and manage the files created by TurboScan.
This app provides a similar all-in-one document management utility for students and professionals as Perfect OCR.
Uses AI to assist users in creating clean PDFs from physical documents.
Provides a basic document digitization tool for users seeking to reduce physical clutter.
Serves students and office workers with a focus on document security.
Goodnotes targets the same student and professional audience as Perfect OCR but focuses on handwriting-to-text conversion.
Provides a basic tool for converting images into shareable PDF files.
Targets users needing a simple, intuitive interface for multi-page document creation.
Acts as a lightweight, free alternative for digitizing receipts and whiteboards.
Targets iOS users with a focus on privacy and no-ad utility.
This app provides a similar utility-focused document management experience for students and office workers as Perfect OCR.
Pocket Scanner serves as a professional-grade alternative by bundling document scanning with specialized business tools like outbound faxing.
Provides a portable document management tool for work and school users.
Scanner – Scan PDF & Document targets the same mobile-utility market by using a subscription-first model to capture recurring revenue from casual users.
Fast PDF Reader & Viewer provides a lightweight interface for users to access and navigate scanned PDF files.
PDF Converter serves the same productivity audience as Perfect OCR but focuses on cloud-based format conversion.
MobiPDF acts as a direct alternative for mobile professionals, providing a similar feature set to Perfect OCR but with added PDF editing capabilities.
PDF Kit - Easy Viewer acts as a document aggregator for users who need to manage disparate files across their device.
This app serves as a general document reader for the same user base as Perfect OCR.
This app targets the same student and office worker demographic as Perfect OCR but focuses on document template creation rather than pure scanning.
Offers a general-purpose scanning solution for digitizing business receipts and contracts.
PDF Expert provides a more advanced, AI-powered document management experience for the same professional audience as Perfect OCR.
This app serves as a basic document reader for the same general user base as Perfect OCR.
This app serves the same document management audience as Perfect OCR but expands the scope to include Excel and PowerPoint viewing.
PDF Jumper serves the same mobile-first productivity audience as Perfect OCR, focusing on camera-to-PDF scanning utility.
Focuses on the specific niche of book digitization for students and researchers.
Fun PDF-Read PDF offers a broader document-viewing utility for users who need to manage multiple file formats alongside PDFs.
This app offers a broad suite of PDF management tools similar to Perfect OCR's document handling capabilities.
New entrants(4)
This app serves as an all-in-one tool for reading, editing, and scanning documents, mirroring Perfect OCR's core functionality.
Targets users needing a lightweight utility for viewing and scanning documents.
Offers a versatile document tool for viewing and organizing office files.
This app provides a similar all-in-one PDF tool for the same productivity audience as Perfect OCR.
The Analyst's Read
The bottom line on Piksoft
Bottom line
Piksoft Inc. is a disciplined single-app publisher that has successfully defended its niche against larger competitors by focusing on core utility and a transparent pricing model. Their high weighted rating across nearly 300k reviews indicates a rare level of sustained product-market fit for a legacy utility app.
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What fed this analysis
- Apps analyzed:
- 1
- With full intel:
- 0
- With overview:
- 1
- Website scraped:
- yes
- Social presence:
- no
