# Kantan Scan - Docs to PDF — Scan, mark up, sign, send > Scan, mark up, sign, send (iPhone/iPad app by NOBUHIRO MIYARA.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/kantan-scan-docs-to-pdf/id6799627825 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [NOBUHIRO MIYARA](https://appshunter.io/developer/6789900018) - Category: Productivity, Utilities - Price: $1.99 - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 17.0 · 8 MB - Languages: American English, Japanese - Released: 2026-08-23 - Data updated: 2026-09-22 - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/kantan-scan-docs-to-pdf/id6799627825/reviews.md ## What is Kantan Scan? Point your camera at a piece of paper and it becomes a straight, clean PDF. The edges are found for you and the page is straightened. Add whatever you need on top, then send it. No ads, and no account to create. SCAN PAPER INTO PDF - Edges are found automatically as you point the camera - Adjust the four corners with your finger - Documents are named from the largest text on the page - Capture as many pages as you like, all in one PDF - Import from your camera roll, in the order you pick - Open PDFs from Mail, messaging apps, or AirDrop PUT SEVERAL PHOTOS ON ONE SHEET - Divide an A4 sheet into 1 to 10 places, portrait or landscape - Drag each photo where you want; pinch to resize - Align: back to grid, left, right, centre, top, bottom, even gaps - Nothing is cropped, so no edge is ever lost - The margins are left free, to write a date or a note - Soften a photo's edge to blend it into the paper - Tap a photo three times to take it off; undo restores it - The sheet is an ordinary document: export as PDF or JPEG - Rearrange it later; margin notes stay put MARK IT UP - Place text, and change the typeface, color, and size - Over sixty symbols: arrows, shapes, numbers, marks, everyday - A draggable arrow links two places on the page - Add stickers made from your own photos - Highlight a line; the text underneath stays readable - Draw over anything you would rather not show - Drag to move, pull the corner to resize, turn to any angle Nothing is burned in. Move or remove your markup any time, or triple tap to remove it. WRITE ON A BLANK PAGE - Add an empty sheet to a document from Add, then Blank page - Portrait or landscape - Six edge trims: none, thin, double, rounded, corner, dotted - Every markup tool works on it, just as on a scanned page - You can put a few photos on it too READ THE TEXT OFF THE PAGE - Tap Read text and the words on that page are lifted out - Correct anything that came out wrong, right there SIGN IT - Sign with your finger; the stroke follows your hand like a pen - Or type your name and pick a style - Nine colours: black, white, blue, red, green, sky blue, purple, pink, orange - A signature you make once is kept, ready to place again MAKE A QR CODE - Type a URL and you have a QR code SORT INTO FOLDERS - Group documents into folders, kept behind one button - Put folders inside folders, as deep as you like - Press and hold a document, then drop it on a folder - Give a folder one of eight colours - Send everything in a folder as a single ZIP LOCK WHAT IS PRIVATE - Lock a folder or a single document - Opening it asks for Face ID, Touch ID, or your passcode - Leaving the app locks them again It uses the Face ID and passcode already on your iPhone. ORGANIZE PAGES - Reorder, rotate, delete, add pages later - Adjust a page's four corners later, as often as you like - The photo as taken is kept, so you can always widen it again - Duplicate a document, or split one into single pages - Search by name; documents inside folders are included SEND AND KEEP - Preview exactly what goes out before you send it - Export as PDF or JPEG - Share by Mail, messaging apps, AirDrop - Print to an AirPrint printer - Save to Files or to Photos EASY TO LIVE WITH - Undo and redo, or shake to step back - Five ways to finish a scan, colour to sharp black and white - Flip a mirrored photo, page or sticker - Switch between Japanese and English - A built-in manual you can enlarge and print - Quiet music while you read it; mute any time PRIVATE BY DESIGN - Everything you scan stays on your device - No networking code at all, so nothing can leave - Text recognition runs on your device too - The developer cannot see any of it - No ads, no account, no subscription GOOD FOR - Turning paper you were handed into PDF - Using words off a page without retyping - Signing a document and sending it back - Keeping something private out of sight - Putting a QR code on a notice - Putting a few receipts on one page ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 1.5.1 — 2026-09-22 Lining up the corners is easier, and folders now tuck behind one button so the list has more room. GREEN MEANS STRAIGHT - In Adjust corners, an edge turns thick and green when it lines up straight across or straight down - You feel a light tap the moment it lines up - If the top and bottom are both green, they are parallel FOLDERS BEHIND ONE BUTTON - Folders are no longer listed with your documents; they sit behind the folder button at the top left, with a count beside it - Tap it to see your folders, then pick one to open it - The list shows only documents, so you see more at once - Press and hold and swipe work just as before ALSO - The strip of folders that appears when you lift a document now has a Close button, and closes if you let go outside it - Fixed photos without any paper in them sometimes coming out tilted and warped FROM EARLIER RELEASES - Adjust the corners of a page as often as you like - Duplicate a document, or split it into single pages ### 1.5.0 — 2026-09-15 You can now fix the edges of a page after scanning. Documents can also be duplicated, or split into single pages. ADJUST THE CORNERS LATER - If the edges of the paper were not found where you wanted, fix them without rescanning - Open the document, tap ••• then Adjust corners, drag the handles, tap Done - The photo as taken is kept, so you can redo it as often as you like - Cropped too tightly? Widen it again and the edges come back - Find it for me searches the page again for you - Documents from before this update, and PDF pages, crop from the picture you see now - On a page you have written on, the app asks first, because the writing will shift DUPLICATE A DOCUMENT - Press and hold a document in the list and choose Duplicate - You get a second copy with the same contents; the original stays as it is - Handy when you want to try markup without touching the original SPLIT INTO SINGLE PAGES - Turn a multi-page document into one document per page - Press and hold, choose Split into single pages; it tells you how many you will get - Each one is named with its page number and they stay in reading order - The original document stays as it is FROM EARLIER RELEASES - Over sixty symbols in six groups - Five ways to finish a scan ### 1.4.0 — 2026-08-31 More than sixty symbols, and five ways to finish a scan. MANY MORE SYMBOLS - Over sixty shapes in six groups: arrows, shapes, numbers, marks, everyday, decorations - Numbered circles 1 to 10, for steps or for the order to read something in - Everyday things: phone, mail, calendar, clock, house, key, paper clip, magnifier, person, car - More shapes and arrows: octagon, trapezoid, parallelogram, cross, arc, wavy line, forked, U-turn, loop and wavy arrows - More decorations: sun, moon, snowflake, leaf, ribbon, crown, music note, round bubble CHOOSE HOW A SCAN IS FINISHED - Sharp black and white, sepia, and photo as it is, alongside black and white and colour - Sharp black and white darkens faint print, for a copy of a copy - Photo as it is skips the document correction, for ID photos and drawings - Pick one under the gear at the top right; each comes with a line saying what it does FLIP A PHOTO - Fix a photo that came out mirrored, without leaving the app - For a page, use ••• then Flip left to right, or Flip top to bottom - Tap a sticker you placed and flip that too - The photo itself is never rewritten; press again and it is back - Anything you wrote stays the right way round; only its place moves ### 1.3.0 — 2026-08-30 Blank pages, and a preview before you send. WRITE ON A BLANK PAGE - Open a document, tap Add, then Blank page, for one empty sheet - Portrait or landscape - Six edge trims: none, thin, double, rounded, corner, dotted - Each trim is shown as a sample before you choose - Every markup tool works on it, just as on a scanned page - Change photos, just below the page, puts a few photos on it SEE IT BEFORE YOU SEND IT - Export now has Preview - It shows the actual file, with your markup on it - Exporting images tells you how many were made - Previewing first costs you no extra wait EASIER TO REDO A COMBINED SHEET - Change photos now sits right below the page, not in the menu - New Align panel: back to grid, left, right, centre, top, bottom, even gaps - Tap the photos you want to line up; only the ones you chose move - Saving updates the page there and then - Cancelling a rearrange leaves the document untouched EASIER ON THE EYE - The markup tools take up less room, so the page looks bigger - Sliders now show a number from 0 to 100, so you can match sizes - Align what you placed: left, right, top, bottom, centre, evenly - The top of the list is tidier, showing one more document ALSO - The manual has been rewritten shorter and clearer - Quiet music plays while you read the manual; mute it at the top right - Export gives a gentle tap you can feel - Fixed: combining documents used to drop the lock ### 1.2.0 — 2026-08-27 You can now lay several photos out on a single sheet. PUT SEVERAL PHOTOS ON ONE SHEET - Tap Combine on the first screen and pick up to ten photos - Divide an A4 sheet into 1 to 10 places, portrait or landscape - Change how many, whenever you like, while you are arranging - Drag each photo where you want it; spread two fingers to resize - Nothing is cropped, so no edge of a document is ever lost - The margins are left free on purpose, to write a date or a note - Tap a photo three times to take it off - Undo and redo everything you do here - Add more photos without leaving the screen - Soften a photo's edge so that it melts into the paper - The sheet is an ordinary document: export it as PDF or JPEG - Rearrange it later; what you wrote in the margin stays ADD ONE TO A DOCUMENT YOU ALREADY HAVE - Open a document, tap Add, and choose Combine photos onto one sheet - No new document appears; it becomes the last page of that one ALSO - The manual has a new chapter on putting photos on one sheet ## More apps by NOBUHIRO MIYARA - [MeloStock MTR](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/melostock-mtr/id6789900016) - [生活費管理 - 引き落とし・ローン・サブスク](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/id6811357140) All apps by NOBUHIRO MIYARA: https://appshunter.io/developer/6789900018 --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-09-22.*