# ScanOnce: PDF Doc Scanner — Sharp, searchable, offline OCR

> Mobile document scanner with on-device processing and OCR. (iPhone/iPad app by Andrii Zakharov.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/scanonce-pdf-doc-scanner/id6780030918 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Andrii Zakharov](https://appshunter.io/developer/6779217338)
- Category: Productivity
- Price: Free (on sale, was $4.99)
- Rating: 5.00/5 from 1 App Store ratings · 1 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 17.0 · 4 MB
- Languages: American English, Arabic, French (France), Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Russian, Chinese (Simplified, China), European Spanish, Chinese (Traditional, Taiwan) and 1 more
- Released: 2026-06-24
- Data updated: 2026-08-27
- Monetization: free with in-app purchases
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/scanonce-pdf-doc-scanner/id6780030918/reviews.md

## What is ScanOnce?

Scan a document. It never leaves your device.

No cloud. No account. No export fees. Point the camera and ScanOnce finds the edges, straightens the page and captures it clean.

Available in English, Spanish, French, Arabic, Russian, Hindi, Ukrainian, Chinese, Japanese and Indonesian.

WHY SCANONCE

Most scanner apps ask for a monthly fee to export a PDF, and quietly upload your documents to someone else's server on the way. Your lease, your tax return, your medical card. ScanOnce does neither. Exporting is free, and nothing you scan ever touches the internet.

WHAT IT DOES

Sharp, automatic captures
Point the camera at a page. Edges are detected, perspective is corrected, and multi-page documents are captured in one go.

Find any document by what is written inside it
Text is recognized directly on your device, so you can search for a word you remember and land on the right page. No upload, no waiting.

Export the way you need
Share as PDF, export single pages as JPEG, or send straight to a printer.

Tidy it up
Rotate, crop, and switch between colour, greyscale and high-contrast black and white. Reorder pages by dragging. Rename and file into folders.

Locked if you want it locked
Turn on Face ID and your documents stay sealed behind it.

PRIVACY, PLAINLY

ScanOnce makes no internet connections at all. There is no account to create, no analytics, no advertising, and no third party receiving anything. Scans, recognized text and generated PDFs are written only to this device. If you delete the app, they are gone with it.

FREE, WITH AN OPTIONAL PRO UNLOCK

Scanning, text search, document reading and PDF export are all free. Optional Pro adds unlimited saved documents and the expense export, which turns your receipts and invoices into a spreadsheet. Take Pro monthly, yearly, or as a one-time purchase you keep forever. No export credits.

Pro plans: Monthly (USD 3.99) or Yearly (USD 19.99) auto-renewing subscription, or a one-time lifetime purchase. Local prices are shown in the app before you buy. Payment is charged to your Apple Account; a subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the current period ends, and can be managed or cancelled anytime in your Apple Account settings.

Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Privacy Policy: https://legal.unreel.ae/privacy/scanonce.html

## Key features

- Automatic edge detection and page straightening
- On-device text recognition for search
- Export as PDF or JPEG
- Multi-page document capture
- Document organization with folders
- Face ID security

## Recent user reviews (1 of 1)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/scanonce-pdf-doc-scanner/id6780030918/reviews.md

### 5/5 — It’s great

*2026-08-07*

Great app! It has a clean and user-friendly design, with excellent scanning results. It’s impressive that such a useful app is completely free. I hope the developer will consider adding more language localization support in future updates.

## Frequently asked questions about ScanOnce

### Does ScanOnce have ads?

ScanOnce is ad-free. The app's privacy policy explicitly states there is no advertising.

### What is the Pro unlock for ScanOnce?

The optional Pro unlock for ScanOnce adds unlimited saved documents, OCR search capabilities, and document signing. This is a one-time purchase, not a subscription.

### How does ScanOnce ensure privacy?

ScanOnce makes no internet connections. All scans, recognized text, and generated PDFs are written only to your device and are deleted if the app is uninstalled.

### Can I search for text within my scanned documents using ScanOnce?

Yes, ScanOnce offers on-device OCR text recognition, allowing you to search for words within your scanned documents directly on your iPhone.

### What export options does ScanOnce offer?

ScanOnce allows you to share documents as PDFs, export single pages as JPEGs, or send them directly to a printer.

### What devices is ScanOnce compatible with?

ScanOnce is currently supported on iPhone devices.

### How often is ScanOnce updated?

The latest version of ScanOnce is 1.5, and it was last updated on August 6, 2026. This indicates a relatively active development cycle.

### Is ScanOnce suitable for children?

ScanOnce has an age rating of 4+, making it appropriate for younger users and families. Its simple interface and focus on document scanning are generally safe.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 3.1 — 2026-08-23

NEW: a Photo filter.

The other filters turn a page into something that looks like it came off a flatbed, which means driving the background to white. On an ID card, a passport or anything printed on colour that is not a cleanup, it is a deletion: the tint, the portrait and every light-printed line disappear. Photo takes the room's shading off and leaves the document alone.

The existing filters are also less heavy-handed now, so light print survives them too.

### 3.0 — 2026-08-19

ScanOnce is built for iPad, and now speaks eleven languages.

• iPad. The library fills the screen with as many columns as fit, and every screen is laid out for the larger canvas.
• Japanese and Indonesian, throughout the app.
• Pro can now be taken monthly or yearly, alongside the one-time purchase that never expires. If you already bought Pro, you keep everything, permanently.
• Fixed text that appeared in English no matter which language you use.

### 2.2 — 2026-08-16

Privacy housekeeping.

• Our privacy policy and support pages moved to a domain we own, so they stay reachable.
• You can open the privacy policy straight from Settings.
• Updated privacy disclosures to meet the latest App Store requirements.

### 2.1 — 2026-08-13

Unlocking Pro from the App Store page now completes correctly in the app.

### 2.0 — 2026-08-11

Scans finally look like scans.

CAPTURE, REBUILT
The lighting is measured and divided back out, so the shadow of your hand and the yellow of a room light no longer end up in the file. Paper comes out white, text comes out black, and small print survives.

PROPER PDFs
Pages are written at true 300 dpi, so a scanned A4 prints as an A4. Exported PDFs are searchable: find a word inside them in Files, Mail or Preview.

IT READS YOUR DOCUMENTS
On-device reading names each scan, tags it, and files receipts, invoices, contracts, IDs and business cards into collections by itself. Nothing is uploaded.

RECEIPTS TO A SPREADSHEET
Export your receipts and invoices as a CSV with dates, vendors and totals.

BUSINESS CARDS TO CONTACTS
Scan a card, save the person.

FASTER TO START
Ask Siri to scan a document, or put it on your Action button.

EDITING NO LONGER COSTS QUALITY
Rotate or recolour a page and every other page stays at full resolution.

Now available in Simplified and Traditional Chinese.

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*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 2026-08-27.*
