PDF Scanner

What is PDF Scanner?

PDF Scanner turns your iPhone into a document scanner you already carry. Point the camera at a page, a receipt, a card or a whole book, and it comes back as a clean, high-quality PDF or image — cropped, straightened and ready to send. No hardware, no desktop software, no waiting until you are back at an office.

How does it work?

Hold the camera over the document and the app finds its edges automatically, then crops and straightens the capture so the result looks scanned rather than photographed. Smart editing tools let you adjust the crop by hand when you need to, and lighting and text enhancement clean up the page. Save it as PDF or as an image, file it in a folder, rename it, and share it — email, messaging apps or the cloud — in a tap. The whole flow works offline.

Key features

• Fast, clean scanning: anything from a receipt to a report in seconds, with automatic edge detection and auto-cropping for a crisp, professional finish.
• ID and photo scanning: capture an ID card or a passport photo and save it in ID-card format, ready to share or print.
• Scan whole books: capture page after page and merge them into a single readable PDF.
• Image to PDF: turn a photo of a whiteboard, a handwritten note or a sketch into a tidy, shareable document.
• Merge and split: combine several scans into one file, or split a large PDF into separate documents.
• Organised, not scattered: keep files in folders, rename them easily, and find them later.
• One-tap sharing: send a PDF by email or a messaging app, or upload it to the cloud.
• Works offline: scanning and saving need no connection at all.

Who it is for

Students scanning textbook chapters and lecture notes into a library they can carry. Employees who need a signed page back to the office in the next five minutes. Business owners archiving invoices and receipts without a filing cabinet. Anyone who has ever been asked for a copy of an ID and had no scanner within reach. The common thread is the same: the document is in front of you, and the file needs to exist now.

Tips for better scans

1. Use even, indirect light: a shadow across the page and a hard glare both cost more quality than any filter recovers.
2. Put the page on a contrasting surface: edge detection works from contrast, so a white page on a dark desk is found instantly.
3. Hold the phone parallel to the page: shooting at an angle forces a correction that softens the text.
4. Scan a book in one session: capturing all the pages in a single run and merging at the end keeps them in order.
5. File it as you save it: naming and foldering at the moment of scanning is what makes the archive searchable months later.