Doc Scanner To PDF vs scandango

Scanner turns paper into clean, professional PDFs in seconds — and the core scanner is genuinely free. No subscription. No watermark on your exports. No account to create. No trial that expires halfway through your first scan. NO PAYWALL, NO CATCHES Most scanner apps let you scan, then ask for money at the moment you try to export. This one doesn't. Scanning, multi-page documents, PDF creation, sharing, filters, cropping, text recognition and search are all free, with no page limits. SCAN ANYTHING, INSTANTLY Point your camera at a document and Scanner finds the edges, straightens the perspective and crops it automatically. Receipts, contracts, notes, business cards, whiteboards, ID cards, forms, handwritten pages — if it's on paper, it scans. A CAMERA SCANNER, NOT A PHOTO ALBUM Your camera takes a picture of a page. Scanner turns it into a document — edges found, perspective straightened, shadows removed, paper made white. Already have photos of documents? Import them and the same thing happens: each page is detected, cleaned up and combined into one properly sized PDF. Photos to PDF, receipts to PDF, whole stacks of paper to PDF, all on device. MANY PAGES, ONE DOCUMENT Keep scanning and pages stack into a single document. Drag to reorder, rotate, crop, duplicate or delete any page, and add more later. Export the whole thing as one file. REAL PDFs, NO WATERMARK Exported PDFs are sharp, properly sized and completely unbranded. Choose Standard for smaller files that email easily, or High Quality when detail matters. Share straight to Messages, Mail, AirDrop, Files, or any app on your device — or save individual pages as JPEG or PNG. SEARCHABLE TEXT, INCLUDED Scanner reads the text on your pages using your device's built-in recognition, so you can search your scans by their contents. Look for "insurance" and find the insurance document, even if that word isn't in the title. Your exported PDFs are searchable too. Text stays selectable and findable in Files, Preview, Acrobat and Gmail — not just inside this app. Most apps charge for that. This one doesn't. CLEAN UP EVERY PAGE Enhanced mode evens out shadows and uneven lighting so text is crisp and paper looks white. Or pick Color, Grayscale, or high-contrast Black & White. Adjust the corners by hand whenever you like — your original capture is always kept, so nothing is ever destroyed. STAY ORGANIZED Sort scans into folders, star the ones you need often, rename anything, and switch between list and grid. Deleted something by accident? Recently Deleted holds it for 30 days. YOUR DOCUMENTS STAY ON YOUR DEVICE This is the part we care about most. Your scans never leave your phone. They aren't uploaded to us, sent to an AI service, or used for advertising. Text recognition runs entirely on device. There's no account because there's nothing to sync — and nothing for anyone to breach. Scanning works fully offline. WHY PEOPLE SWITCH It's a free iPhone scanner that behaves like a paid one: fast, quiet, native, and honest about what it does. No fake AI branding, no onboarding survey, no popup asking you to subscribe before you've scanned a thing. Scanner is supported by ads, kept deliberately away from your documents. You will never see an ad while the camera is open, while you're cropping or editing, while text is being recognized, while a document is on screen, or inside an exported PDF. Also works on iPad.

Turn paper into clean PDF and PNG files on your iPhone or iPad. Point the camera at a page and scandango finds the edges, straightens it, cleans it up and reads the text. Everything happens on your device. SMART NAMES AND KEY DETAILS Apple Intelligence reads each scan and names it for you, like "Electricity Bill, October 2026" instead of "Scan 2026-10-01 0915". It picks out the dates, amounts and reference numbers that matter, and adds a due date to Calendar in one tap. On iPhones without Apple Intelligence, scandango names scans from their first line of text. SCAN IN SECONDS Single Page saves each scan on its own. Multi-page keeps related pages together. Add pages to a scan from your library at any time, and your unfinished scans stay saved. CLEAN, STRAIGHT PAGES Auto evens out lighting and shadows and sharpens text, while checking it hasn't lost detail or changed color. Crop, rotate, reorder and undo edits. Choose Color, Grayscale, Black and White or Original. On iOS 27, Flatten Curved Page straightens pages from books. FIND ANYTHING Search your library by name, by any word in a scan, or by kind of document, such as "receipts" or "letters". Select and copy text with Live Text. SIGN, SORT AND KEEP TRACK • Sign & Mark Up: sign, write and highlight on any page with Apple Pencil or your finger. • Smart Folders: receipts, bills, letters and more, sorted into folders as you scan. • Bill Reminders: a reminder before a bill is due, from the date on the page. • Expenses: receipts, invoices and bills in one list with totals, ready to export as a spreadsheet. SAVE AND SHARE Searchable PDFs, PNG images, text files, PDF passwords, custom page sizes and margins, and batch export. Save to Files or Photos, or share with any app. Open scandango from Shortcuts, Control Center or a Lock Screen widget. BUILT FOR IPHONE DUO AND IPAD Open iPhone Duo and scan on one side while your pages build up on the other. On iPad, your library sits in a sidebar beside the scan you're working on, with tools at the top, keyboard shortcuts and drag and drop. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account, ads or subscription, and every feature is free. Your scans, their text and Apple Intelligence all stay on your device unless you choose to share them. Requires iOS 26 or later. Smart names and summaries need a device with Apple Intelligence.