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Top 20 Scanners and OCR SDKs Used in Android Apps on Google Play
Last update: 24 Jul 2025 CET
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Top 20 Scanners and OCR SDKs Used in Android Apps on Google Play

We at 42matters have identified the 20 most popular Scanners and OCR SDKs leveraged by Android apps available on the Android app market.

Scanner and OCR SDKs enable apps to scan and process texts and QR codes from images and documents. While Scanner SDKs provide apps with the ability to scan, crop, rotate, and color correct documents and QRs, OCR (Optical Character Recognition) SDKs recognize text in scanned images and documents and convert them into machine-readable texts. These SDKs may also provide tools for language detection, spell checking, and formatting.

This list is based on our analysis of the millions of mobile applications – and the 2,300+ SDKs they use – that constitute the vast inventory of the Google Play Store. The accompanying data provides readers with a glimpse into the rich mobile application insights generated by the 42matters technology. This data is also available via our APIs, file dumps, Explorer, and SDK Explorer.

The intended purpose of this article is to assist app builders in their search for the perfect Scanners and OCR SDK to leverage in their app, as well as to give SDK developers insight into their biggest competitors and potential customers. This data collected by our technology may also serve as a useful tool for folks researching the wider mobile app market.

Among all apps utilizing scanners and ocr SDKs, 73.74% have integrated ZXing. This accounts for 69.46% of app downloads within the scanners and ocr SDK category.

ZXing ("zebra crossing") is an open-source, multi-format 1D/2D barcode image processing SDK implemented in Java, with ports to other languages.

Total Apps
407.63k
Google Play
App Share
73.74%
Google Play
Apps
366.13k
Games
41.49k
Total Downloads
393.98b
Google Play
Download Share
69.46%
Google Play
App Downloads
232.71b
Game Downloads
161.27b

Use the 42matters SDK Explorer to find all apps that use ZXing.

Among all apps utilizing scanners and ocr SDKs, 32.31% have integrated ML Kit by Google. This accounts for 40.20% of app downloads within the scanners and ocr SDK category.

Total Apps
178.59k
Google Play
App Share
32.31%
Google Play
Apps
178.06k
Games
529
Total Downloads
227.98b
Google Play
Download Share
40.20%
Google Play
App Downloads
226.15b
Game Downloads
1.83b

Use the 42matters SDK Explorer to find all apps that use ML Kit by Google.

Among all apps utilizing scanners and ocr SDKs, 19.45% have integrated ZXing Android Embedded. This accounts for 7.64% of app downloads within the scanners and ocr SDK category.

ZXing Android Embedded is a barcode scanning SDK for Android, using ZXing for decoding.

Total Apps
107.54k
Google Play
App Share
19.45%
Google Play
Apps
107.20k
Games
335
Total Downloads
43.31b
Google Play
Download Share
7.64%
Google Play
App Downloads
42.81b
Game Downloads
499.24m

Use the 42matters SDK Explorer to find all apps that use ZXing Android Embedded.

Among all apps utilizing scanners and ocr SDKs, 4.70% have integrated Phonegap Barcode Scanner. This accounts for <1% of app downloads within the scanners and ocr SDK category.

Phonegap Barcode Scanner is SDK that enables barcode scanning.

Total Apps
25.95k
Google Play
App Share
4.70%
Google Play
Apps
25.90k
Games
54
Total Downloads
1.19b
Google Play
Download Share
<1%
Google Play
App Downloads
1.18b
Game Downloads
5.16m

Use the 42matters SDK Explorer to find all apps that use Phonegap Barcode Scanner.

Among all apps utilizing scanners and ocr SDKs, 4.33% have integrated Barcode Scanner Views. This accounts for 1.29% of app downloads within the scanners and ocr SDK category.

Android library SDK that provides easy to use and extensible Barcode Scanner views based on ZXing and ZBar.

Total Apps
23.91k
Google Play
App Share
4.33%
Google Play
Apps
23.84k
Games
76
Total Downloads
7.30b
Google Play
Download Share
1.29%
Google Play
App Downloads
6.88b
Game Downloads
418.79m

Use the 42matters SDK Explorer to find all apps that use Barcode Scanner Views.

Among all apps utilizing scanners and ocr SDKs, 3.04% have integrated Code Scanner. This accounts for <1% of app downloads within the scanners and ocr SDK category.

Total Apps
16.79k
Google Play
App Share
3.04%
Google Play
Apps
16.77k
Games
22
Total Downloads
3.54b
Google Play
Download Share
<1%
Google Play
App Downloads
3.50b
Game Downloads
33.03m

Use the 42matters SDK Explorer to find all apps that use Code Scanner.

Among all apps utilizing scanners and ocr SDKs, 1.09% have integrated ZBar. This accounts for <1% of app downloads within the scanners and ocr SDK category.

ZBar is an open source software suite for reading bar codes from various sources, such as video streams, image files, and raw intensity sensors.

Total Apps
6.04k
Google Play
App Share
1.09%
Google Play
Apps
6.02k
Games
20
Total Downloads
2.56b
Google Play
Download Share
<1%
Google Play
App Downloads
2.49b
Game Downloads
75.27m

Use the 42matters SDK Explorer to find all apps that use ZBar.

Among all apps utilizing scanners and ocr SDKs, <1% have integrated Tesseract OCR. This accounts for <1% of app downloads within the scanners and ocr SDK category.

The Tesseract OCR SDK contains an OCR engine — libtesseract and a command line program — tesseract. Tesseract 4 adds a new neural net (LSTM) based OCR engine which is focused on line recognition, but also still supports the legacy Tesseract OCR engine of Tesseract 3 which works by recognizing character patterns.

Total Apps
2.09k
Google Play
App Share
<1%
Google Play
Apps
2.08k
Games
19
Total Downloads
1.26b
Google Play
Download Share
<1%
Google Play
App Downloads
1.25b
Game Downloads
11.70m

Use the 42matters SDK Explorer to find all apps that use Tesseract OCR.

Among all apps utilizing scanners and ocr SDKs, <1% have integrated tess-two. This accounts for <1% of app downloads within the scanners and ocr SDK category.

tess-two offers a fork of Tesseract Tools for Android (tesseract-android-tools) that adds some additional functions. Tesseract Tools for Android is a set of Android APIs and build files for the Tesseract OCR and Leptonica image processing libraries.

Total Apps
2.01k
Google Play
App Share
<1%
Google Play
Apps
1.99k
Games
18
Total Downloads
1.22b
Google Play
Download Share
<1%
Google Play
App Downloads
1.20b
Game Downloads
11.70m

Use the 42matters SDK Explorer to find all apps that use tess-two.

Among all apps utilizing scanners and ocr SDKs, <1% have integrated QRCodeReaderView. This accounts for <1% of app downloads within the scanners and ocr SDK category.

The QRCodeReaderView SDK is a modification of the ZXING Barcode Scanner project for easy Android QR-Code detection and AR purposes. This project implements an Android view which shows the camera and notifies users when there's a QR code inside the preview.

Total Apps
1.79k
Google Play
App Share
<1%
Google Play
Apps
1.78k
Games
1
Total Downloads
1.25b
Google Play
Download Share
<1%
Google Play
App Downloads
1.25b
Game Downloads
174.18k

Use the 42matters SDK Explorer to find all apps that use QRCodeReaderView.

Among all apps utilizing scanners and ocr SDKs, <1% have integrated Scandit. This accounts for <1% of app downloads within the scanners and ocr SDK category.

Scandit develops software for mobile enterprise apps with the highest quality barcode scanning, text and objects recognition, and augmented reality solutions.

Total Apps
1.37k
Google Play
App Share
<1%
Google Play
Apps
1.37k
Games
0
Total Downloads
530.53m
Google Play
Download Share
<1%
Google Play
App Downloads
530.48m
Game Downloads
54.63k

Use the 42matters SDK Explorer to find all apps that use Scandit.

Among all apps utilizing scanners and ocr SDKs, <1% have integrated Genius Scan. This accounts for <1% of app downloads within the scanners and ocr SDK category.

Total Apps
891
Google Play
App Share
<1%
Google Play
Apps
891
Games
0
Total Downloads
122.13m
Google Play
Download Share
<1%
Google Play
App Downloads
122.13m
Game Downloads
0

Use the 42matters SDK Explorer to find all apps that use Genius Scan.

Among all apps utilizing scanners and ocr SDKs, <1% have integrated PSPDFKit. This accounts for <1% of app downloads within the scanners and ocr SDK category.

PSPDFKit is the best framework for working with PDF files. The PSPDFKit SDK provides first-rate PDF solutions for your application with features like annotating, signing, and form filling.

Total Apps
725
Google Play
App Share
<1%
Google Play
Apps
724
Games
1
Total Downloads
1.49b
Google Play
Download Share
<1%
Google Play
App Downloads
1.49b
Game Downloads
6.98k

Use the 42matters SDK Explorer to find all apps that use PSPDFKit.

Among all apps utilizing scanners and ocr SDKs, <1% have integrated Zebra Scanners. This accounts for <1% of app downloads within the scanners and ocr SDK category.

Total Apps
390
Google Play
App Share
<1%
Google Play
Apps
390
Games
0
Total Downloads
10.83m
Google Play
Download Share
<1%
Google Play
App Downloads
10.81m
Game Downloads
14.20k

Use the 42matters SDK Explorer to find all apps that use Zebra Scanners.

Among all apps utilizing scanners and ocr SDKs, <1% have integrated Scanbot. This accounts for <1% of app downloads within the scanners and ocr SDK category.

Total Apps
322
Google Play
App Share
<1%
Google Play
Apps
320
Games
2
Total Downloads
185.62m
Google Play
Download Share
<1%
Google Play
App Downloads
185.61m
Game Downloads
6.28k

Use the 42matters SDK Explorer to find all apps that use Scanbot.

Among all apps utilizing scanners and ocr SDKs, <1% have integrated Anyline SDK. This accounts for <1% of app downloads within the scanners and ocr SDK category.

Anyline is a mobile OCR SDK that enables you to scan numbers and short text within your application.

Total Apps
248
Google Play
App Share
<1%
Google Play
Apps
248
Games
0
Total Downloads
24.70m
Google Play
Download Share
<1%
Google Play
App Downloads
24.70m
Game Downloads
327

Use the 42matters SDK Explorer to find all apps that use Anyline SDK.

Among all apps utilizing scanners and ocr SDKs, <1% have integrated Cortex Decoder. This accounts for <1% of app downloads within the scanners and ocr SDK category.

Total Apps
103
Google Play
App Share
<1%
Google Play
Apps
103
Games
0
Total Downloads
36.12m
Google Play
Download Share
<1%
Google Play
App Downloads
36.12m
Game Downloads
0

Use the 42matters SDK Explorer to find all apps that use Cortex Decoder.

Among all apps utilizing scanners and ocr SDKs, <1% have integrated ABBYY. This accounts for <1% of app downloads within the scanners and ocr SDK category.

Mobile document capture and on-device text recognition. Create smooth self-service experiences for customers.

Total Apps
84
Google Play
App Share
<1%
Google Play
Apps
84
Games
0
Total Downloads
725.02m
Google Play
Download Share
<1%
Google Play
App Downloads
725.02m
Game Downloads
0

Use the 42matters SDK Explorer to find all apps that use ABBYY.

Among all apps utilizing scanners and ocr SDKs, <1% have integrated Docutain. This accounts for <1% of app downloads within the scanners and ocr SDK category.

Total Apps
30
Google Play
App Share
<1%
Google Play
Apps
30
Games
0
Total Downloads
1.74m
Google Play
Download Share
<1%
Google Play
App Downloads
1.74m
Game Downloads
0

Use the 42matters SDK Explorer to find all apps that use Docutain.

Among all apps utilizing scanners and ocr SDKs, <1% have integrated Dynamsoft Barcode Reader. This accounts for <1% of app downloads within the scanners and ocr SDK category.

Total Apps
14
Google Play
App Share
<1%
Google Play
Apps
11
Games
3
Total Downloads
619.57k
Google Play
Download Share
<1%
Google Play
App Downloads
610.15k
Game Downloads
9.42k

Use the 42matters SDK Explorer to find all apps that use Dynamsoft Barcode Reader.

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