Document · iEdit Scanner
Scan documents into a searchable PDF with your phone's camera
iEdit Scanner turns the camera of your iPhone, iPad or Android phone into a document scanner. It finds the page edges live, captures by itself when you hold still, straightens and cleans the page, and saves a full-resolution PDF with a searchable text layer, all on the device.
Overview
Point the camera at a page and a green frame follows its edges. Hold still for about a second and iEdit takes the picture at the camera's highest resolution; there is a manual shutter too. Scan one page in Document mode or a whole stack in Batch mode, and bring in photos from your gallery when the paper is already photographed. Flash can be off, auto, on or a steady torch. Save PDF writes a full-resolution PDF whose text you can search, select and copy in any reader.
Edge detection runs live, with Apple's Vision framework on iPhone and iPad and iEdit's own detector on Android. After capture, a corner editor with a 2.2× magnifier lets you nudge each edge, or tap Detect page or Whole image, before the perspective is corrected. Five filters are offered: Original, Magic colour, Clean up, which removes shadows, Greyscale and Black & white; every filter except Original sharpens with noise-aware sharpening. The review screen lets you crop, rotate, delete and add pages, and the text layer comes from OCR on the device.
Use it for receipts to claim, contracts to file, school letters, a whiteboard after a meeting, or the pile of old papers you want to be rid of. Because the scanner and the OCR run on your device, a bank statement or a passport scan never leaves your phone, and scanning works with no signal at all. Every scan is saved to My files free of charge, searchable layer included.
Why people use it
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Edges found for you
A live frame follows the page and the shot is taken by itself once you hold still for about a second.
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Clean, legible pages
Clean up removes shadows, Black & white gives print-like contrast, and the perspective is corrected automatically.
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Searchable from the start
Every saved scan carries an invisible OCR text layer, so you can search and copy its text in any PDF reader.
How to use Document scanner in iEdit
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Open iEdit and tap Scan a document on the Scan tab.
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Choose Document for one page or Batch for several, then hold the camera over the page.
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Adjust the corners if needed and pick a filter such as Magic colour or Black & white.
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Review, rotate or add pages, then tap Save PDF.
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Find the searchable PDF in My files.
Frequently asked questions
Are my scans uploaded to a server?
No. Edge detection, perspective correction, filters and the OCR text layer all run on your iPhone, iPad or Android device. Nothing is sent to a server, no account is needed, and the document scanner works without an internet connection, so a scan of a passport or a bank letter stays on your phone.
Is the document scanner free?
Yes. Scanning, Batch mode, every filter and the searchable PDF are free, and each scan is saved to My files inside iEdit. Sharing a scan with another app or saving it to Files or your photo library is part of iEdit Premium, an optional monthly subscription with a 3-day free trial.
Can I scan several pages into one PDF?
Yes. Switch to Batch mode and the scanner keeps capturing page after page; on the review screen you can crop, rotate, delete or add pages before saving. The result is a single full-resolution PDF with a searchable text layer in nine scripts, including Latin, Cyrillic, Arabic, Chinese and Japanese.
Try Document scanner in iEdit
Available for iPhone, iPad and Android.