Is the number scanner free?

The app installs free and the core scan is unlimited — camera, gallery, swipe selection, text mode, copy and share. Number Mode and scan history are the paid features.

Does it work without a connection?

Yes. Recognition runs on the device through Google ML Kit. Nothing is sent to a server for the scan itself.

Does it check whether the number is correct?

Not in the app. Check-digit verification for IMEI, VIN and IBAN lives in the free browser tools on this site.

Can it scan several photos at once?

No. There is no batch mode and no file export — results go to the clipboard, the share sheet and a local history.

The number scanner that reads one line, not the whole page

SwipeScan · iOS 13+ and Android · free to install · no account

Most scanning apps hand you the entire image as prose and leave you to find the number in it. This one reads only the line you swipe over. That is the whole idea, and everything below follows from it.

Try the browser version first

SwipeScan: Swipe over the line — **Swipe over the line**Only what the stroke covers is recognised. The brush size is adjustable and there is an eraser.

SwipeScan: It is already copied — **It is already copied**The result lands in the clipboard by itself — no extra tap on a copy button.

SwipeScan: Paste it anywhere — **Paste it anywhere**A dialler, a spreadsheet, a bank form, a tracking page.

What Number Mode actually does to a number

This is the part that is hard to see from a screenshot, and it is the reason the app exists rather than a plain text scanner.

Step	Why it matters
Strips `\|`, `l` and `I` when a digit does not follow	These are the exact glyphs an engine confuses with `1`
Keeps only digits and `. , - + %`	Words and stray marks never reach your clipboard
Works out whether the number is `1,234.56` or `1.234,56`	It compares which of the dot or comma comes last — guess wrong and 1234.56 becomes 1.23456
Removes thousands separators	So the value pastes into a spreadsheet as a number, not as text
Outputs the decimal separator you chose	Dot, comma, or exactly as it was found — set once in Settings
Keeps the sign and the percent	A dropped minus reverses a total, and nothing downstream would catch it

More on why this matters at all: OCR accuracy on long numbers.

Everything it does

Getting the image in

Live camera	Point it at a label, a screen or a meter
Photo from the gallery	Anything already on the device
Pinch zoom, 0.5× to 3×	For small print on a busy label

Choosing what to read

Finger swipe selection	Drag over the line like a highlighter
Adjustable brush, eraser	Widen the stroke for a whole block, narrow it for one line
Only the stroke is read	The rest of the image is ignored — this is the difference from a whole-page reader

Reading it

On-device recognition	Google ML Kit, no server round trip
Text mode	Free and unlimited
Number Mode PAID	Digits only, with the cleanup below

Getting it out

Automatic clipboard copy	No separate copy step
System share sheet	Send it to any app that takes text
Scan history PAID	Every recognition kept locally with a timestamp, newest first

What it does not do

Listed so you can decide before installing rather than after.

No check-digit verification	IMEI, VIN and IBAN validation lives in the free browser tools on this site, not in the app
No batch mode	One image at a time
No file export	Clipboard, share sheet and local history only — no CSV
English only	One interface language today
No PDF handling	A document scanner is the right tool for that
Your phone may be enough	For a paragraph of ordinary text, iOS Live Text and Google Lens are free and built in. Use them

Install it

Free, no account, and the core scan is unlimited. Number Mode and history are the paid features — everything else works without paying.

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