Paper Scan: Scan to PDF
Document scanner, private OCR
Only for iPhone
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
iPhone
Point it at a page: edges found, perspective fixed, text recognized on your iPhone. Nothing is uploaded, ever. No account, no sign-up, no ads.
Paper Scan turns your iPhone into a fast, private document scanner. Every scan, every recognized word and every PDF you export stays on your device — none of it is ever uploaded or sold, and scanning and OCR both work with the phone in airplane mode.
No account. No sign-up. No email. No ads. Open it, point it at a page, and scan.
Point the camera at any document and Paper Scan automatically detects its edges and corrects the perspective — no manual cropping needed. Capture multi-page documents in one pass, then reorder, rename, or add more pages any time.
Enhance any scan with a tap: choose Original, Grayscale, Black & White, or Enhance for a clean, readable page. Recognize text right on your device with on-device OCR, then copy it or search your documents by what they say.
When you're ready to share, export any document straight to PDF, share individual pages, or save them to your Photos library.
FEATURES
• Automatic edge detection & perspective correction
• Multi-page documents with reordering
• On-device text recognition (OCR)
• Enhance, Grayscale, and Black & White filters
• Export to PDF
• Share pages or save to Photos
• Search documents by title or recognized text
• Scanning and OCR run entirely offline — your documents never leave your iPhone
• No tracking of you across other companies' apps or websites
BUILT BY ONE PERSON
I built Paper Scan for myself, in a year when AI finally made something like this achievable alone — then kept building whatever people asked for. No team, no investors, and no roadmap written by anyone but the people using it. And no subscription: scanning your own paperwork shouldn't cost a monthly fee.
TELL ME WHAT TO BUILD
See something in another scanner app that you wish this one had? Email mark@vibecode.review. I read every message and I build what people actually ask for — that is how most of this app got here.
Ratings & Reviews
Small update. Nothing changes in the app.
The developer, Meng-Yi Hsu, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Meng-Yi Hsu
- Size
- 47.1 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.1 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 15.1 or later. - iPod touch
Requires iOS 15.1 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
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- Copyright
- © 2026 Mark Utility Labs