Paperix - PDF Secure and Local

Paperix is a fully free document scanner that runs everything — scanning, OCR, and AI — on your iPhone. No subscriptions. No watermarks. No ads. No accounts. Stop paying a yearly fee to turn paper into a PDF, and keep your documents on your own device. EVERY FEATURE OF THE PAID APPS — FOR FREE Paperix matches the paid scanners feature-for-feature and charges $0 for any of it: - One-tap multi-page scanning with auto edge-detect and perspective correction - Smart cleanup that measures each page first — dim rooms and shadows get corrected, good pages are left alone, faded ink and thermal receipts keep their detail - Black & white and Max Punch modes; reprocess any saved scan later without rescanning - Big scans save instantly — text recognition runs in the background while you keep working - Auto-name scans from the largest text on the first page - Import from Photos or Files; save to Paperix from any app's share sheet - Combine scans into one PDF, split pages out into a new document, export just the pages you pick - Folders, sort, bulk select, swipe between documents, 30-day Recently Deleted - Universal app: two-column layout on iPad SEARCHABLE PDFs OUT OF THE BOX — NO PREMIUM TIER Every scan runs through on-device text recognition. PDFs are searchable in Paperix, in Preview on your Mac, in Adobe Acrobat, anywhere. Search across every doc and tap a result to jump to the highlighted phrase. No "OCR credits". No paywalled search. - Extract Text — Paperix: a share-sheet action that pulls the text out of any image, with Copy and Share, without opening the app SIGN, FILL, AND MARK UP — NO WATERMARK - Pen, Eraser, Undo, Redo, Clear in one toolbar; true black, red, blue, green, yellow ink - Type text directly on a page — drag, resize, pick size and alignment - One-tap presets drop today's date or your saved name for forms - Pinch-to-zoom canvas; draw with finger or Apple Pencil - OCR re-runs on save so signed pages stay searchable ON-DEVICE AI — ON YOUR IPHONE, NEVER ON A SERVER Every word of AI inference runs on your iPhone's Neural Engine using Apple's Foundation Models. Nothing is uploaded, logged, or seen by anyone but you. - ANALYZE a document — on-device Summary, Key Points, and per-doc Q&A - ASK PAPERIX — pose a question across every doc on your phone and get a sourced answer with tappable citations back to the exact page - Semantic search by meaning, not just keywords - AI surfaces hide cleanly on iPhones without Apple Intelligence; the rest of the app works the same The cloud scanners ship your contracts, medical records, and bank statements to someone else's GPU. Paperix runs the same AI on your own phone. SMART ACTIONS FROM A SCAN Paperix looks for contact info, appointment dates, addresses, and links in every scan. One tap adds the contact to Contacts, the appointment to Calendar, the address to Maps, or opens the link in Safari. YOUR DOCUMENTS ARE NEVER LOCKED IN - Export your whole library, a folder, or a selection as PDFs into any Files folder — on your iPhone or in iCloud Drive — with your folder structure kept, or as one ZIP to save or share - Export to Photos as albums, one per folder; optionally keep Photos in sync with every new scan - Standard or password-protected PDF, AirPrint, and the iOS share sheet — Mail, Messages, AirDrop, anywhere PRIVATE BY ARCHITECTURE Paperix has no networking code of its own. No telemetry, no analytics, no SDKs, no ads, no "premium tier". The only optional sync is through your own Apple iCloud, off by default — never a Paperix server. Turn airplane mode on permanently and Paperix works exactly the same. REQUIREMENTS - iPhone or iPad running iOS 26 or later - AI features need Apple Intelligence (iPhone 15 Pro and later, or an M-series iPad); everything else works on every supported device