PDF Scanner App: Documents

Zoho Scanner is a document scanner and PDF maker app that helps students, freelancers, small business owners and teams digitise their papers — scan with your phone camera, then e-sign, extract and edit the text, translate, share, and run it all through a workflow you set up once.

Use it when a signed copy has to go back the same day, when you need the words out of a printed page, when a document must be read in another language, or when the same kind of scan always goes to the same folder.

PDF SCANNER: SCAN DOCUMENTS AND DIGITISE THEM

Hold your camera over a page. The scanner app auto-detects the edges, straightens the image and clears shadows. Crop, rotate, resize, reorder pages and apply filters that turn a dull photo into a crisp black-and-white scan, then export as PDF or PNG in one tap. Batch scan a stack of pages into a single PDF, and mark up scans with three marker tools.

TEXT RECOGNITION (OCR): IMAGE TO TEXT

Extract text from any scan and edit it. Works on printed documents, books and handwriting. Copy it, share it as a .txt file, or search inside your scanned documents using words printed on the page — so a doc you filed months ago is findable.

E-SIGN DOCUMENTS

Drop in your signature from Zoho Sign, add initials, name, date and email, then send the signed PDF straight back — so a form that arrives on paper never needs printing.

TRANSLATE INTO 17 LANGUAGES

Translate scanned text into 17 languages, including French, Spanish, German, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese and Italian. Send it as a file or copy it into a message.

SHARE, AUTO-UPLOAD AND BUILD WORKFLOWS

Send scans over WhatsApp, email or any messaging app, and auto-upload to Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, Zoho WorkDrive, Zoho Expense or Zoho Notebook. Build a workflow once and the same document type always lands in the same place — one tap, not five.

ORGANISE EVERYTHING

Create folders, add tags and set reminders. Zia reads the content inside each scan and suggests tags, so documents file themselves.

EVERY CONVERSION YOU NEED

Scan to PDF. Image to PDF. JPG to PDF. Photo to PDF. Multi-page PDF from a stack of pages. Image to text. Scan to Word-ready text. Export as PNG when you need an image. The PDF maker is built in — no second app, no uploading to a website.

WHAT PEOPLE SCAN

ID and PAN card copies, marksheets and certificates, lecture notes and assignments, rent agreements, GST invoices and bills, receipts, insurance papers, prescriptions — anything you need to send as a PDF.

QUESTIONS PEOPLE ASK

Who is Zoho Scanner for?

Students scanning lecture notes, assignments and question papers; freelancers and small business owners scanning invoices, receipts and contracts; teams filing expenses into Zoho Expense and Zoho WorkDrive; and anyone who needs a paper document as a PDF in the next thirty seconds.

I already use CamScanner. Can I move my documents across?

Yes. Import your scanned docs from CamScanner into Zoho Scanner in a jiffy — available in the Android app.

Does it work offline?

Yes. Scan now, sync later.

Can I keep my documents private?

Lock documents behind your fingerprint. Zoho Scanner shows no ads, puts no watermark on documents you share, and Zoho does not sell user data.

What is free and what is paid?

Zoho Scanner is free to download and use — scan and export PDF documents without paying. Basic is a one-time purchase that adds app themes, document reminders, fingerprint lock, content search, extra filters, watermark-free sharing and 2 workflows. Premium is a subscription that adds OCR text export, translation, e-signing, Google Drive backup, unlimited workflows, auto-upload to cloud storage, Zia tag suggestions and read-aloud.

Zoho Scanner is a doc scanner and scanner app for Android phones and tablets. Built by Zoho, trusted by 100+ million users worldwide. 500,000+ downloads on Google Play.