Quick snapshot
PDF Scanner Editor — OCR Scan is a no-cost iPhone app for turning physical documents and pictures into searchable PDF files. It’s designed to be fast and simple, producing clean scans that are handy whether you’re working from home, in a classroom, at the office, or traveling. The app focuses on image quality and offers tools to refine and organize your scans.
Features and capabilities
- Share copies to email, cloud storage, and messaging apps
- Keep an organized history of all your scanned documents
- Use title or date sorting to arrange your files
- Protect sensitive documents with a passcode
- Select or define custom page dimensions and layouts
- Remove distracting backgrounds and improve readability
- Let the app detect page borders automatically for accurate cropping
- Fine-tune contrast and brightness to enhance text clarity
- Capture in color, black-and-white, or grayscale after granting camera and storage access
- Perform OCR to make text in images searchable and selectable
Where this helps most
The app is useful for scanning receipts, notes, letters, assignments, and images you want to archive as PDFs. Its speed and editing tools make it practical for everyday use — from quick scans on the go to building a searchable document library.
Additional suggestion
If you also need to prepare job application materials, consider using a free resume/CV and cover letter builder alongside the scanner to create professional-looking documents before exporting them as PDFs.
Technical
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