OnlyScans: PDF Scanner & OCR

OnlyScans is a private document scanner and PDF scanner for everyday paperwork. Scan to PDF, recognize text with on-device OCR, sign, and share — your documents stay on your phone. No account, no ads, and nothing is uploaded to our servers.

Capture documents, receipts, invoices, contracts, forms, notes, whiteboards, ID cards, passports, and driver's licenses, then save or share them as PDF, JPEG, or PNG. Use it as a receipt scanner for expenses, scan class notes into searchable PDFs, or digitize contracts on the go.

✦ Scan and import

- Scan with automatic edge detection, crop, and page cleanup

- Batch scan multi-page documents in one session

- Scan the front and back of ID cards, passports, or driver's licenses and export them on one page or as separate pages

- Import photos and images, or existing PDFs — including password-protected PDFs

✦ Clean up pages

- Crop, rotate, reorder, delete, merge, or split pages

- One-tap filters: enhanced, grayscale, black-and-white, and whiteboard

- Fine-tune brightness, contrast, saturation, and sharpness when you need more control

✦ OCR in 89 languages

- Extract text from scans with on-device OCR — Latin, Arabic, Hebrew, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Hindi, Cyrillic, and many more scripts

- Copy or share recognized text

- Export searchable PDFs with a selectable text layer

- Extra language packs download on demand, so the app stays small

✦ Sign, mark, and protect

- Add signatures, typed text, reusable text stamps, and hand-drawn marks

- Watermark pages with your own text or a saved stamp

- Export password-protected PDFs

- Lock the app with your fingerprint or device PIN

✦ Organize and find

- Sort scans into folders and subfolders, add categories, and pin important documents

- Search your whole library by title or by the text inside your scans

- Select multiple documents for bulk actions, merge documents, or split pages into a new document

✦ Export and share

- Export as PDF, JPEG, or PNG — multi-page image exports are bundled as a ZIP

- Choose quality presets from compact to maximum (72–400 DPI)

- Automatically save a copy of every export to a device folder you choose

- Share to any app, including installed cloud storage apps like Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, or Box

✦ Scan from your home screen

- Quick Scan widget starts a new scan with one tap

- Recent documents widget keeps your latest scans one tap away

✦ Private by design

Your scans are stored locally on your device. Scanning and OCR run entirely on-device, and OnlyScans never uploads your documents or recognized text to our servers or any cloud service. Nothing leaves your phone unless you choose to share or export it. No account or sign-up required, and no ads.

✦ Free and Pro

Scanning is free without limits: scan, crop, apply filters, organize in folders, search your library, import images, and export PDF, JPEG, or PNG. Pro (or individual feature packs) unlocks OCR and searchable PDFs, batch scanning, signatures and markup, PDF import, manual image adjustments, password-protected exports, App Lock, categories, and one-tap save to cloud apps.

The app interface is available in 90+ languages, with full right-to-left support and a dark theme.

Scan paperwork, clean it up, organize it, and send it as a polished PDF — straight from your phone.