CleanScan: PDF Scanner & OCR
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CleanScan: PDF Scanner & OCR is a free Productivity app for iPhone and iPad by fung ka wa. Requires iOS 15.0. Updated August 5, 2026.
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 47 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Aug 5
- 2026 · v1.1.3
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About CleanScan: PDF Scanner & OCR
On-device OCR, full-text search, translation and read-aloud — all free, all offline, no account. Scan a document and CleanScan turns it into searchable text right on your iPhone. Nothing is uploaded. Nothing is tracked. No subscription, ever. FREE — ALL OF THIS - On-device OCR — text is recognised on your iPhone, never sent anywhere - Full-text search — find any word across every document you have ever scanned - Searchable PDFs — exported files carry a real text layer, so Files, Mail and Preview can search them too - Translate — read a scanned page in another language, offline - Read aloud — listen to any document hands-free - Shadow removal — flat-field correction erases the shadow your hand casts, so the whole page is evenly lit - Auto-straighten — edges are detected and the page is de-skewed to a clean rectangle - Crisp black & white — an adaptive threshold keeps small text sharp while making the background pure white. Colour and Grayscale modes too - Uniform A4 PDFs — mixed page sizes come out as tidy, consistent pages - Multi-page — scan, reorder by drag, rename, split, add or remove pages - QR and barcode scanning - Live Text and data detection — tap a phone number or address straight from a scan - Export and share via Mail, Messages, Files, WhatsApp or AirDrop - Offline history of everything you have scanned, stored only on your device PRIVATE BY DESIGN - 100% on-device processing. Your scans never leave your iPhone. - No account. No sign-in. No servers. No document upload — ever. - Ads are non-personalised. CleanScan never asks to track you and does not use an advertising identifier. - A document leaves your device only when you choose to share or email it. $1.99 — ONE TIME, NO SUBSCRIPTION - Merge documents into a single PDF - Annotate and mark up pages - Password-protect and encrypt PDFs - Fill in PDF forms - Removes ads permanently One payment. No monthly fee. No trial that quietly renews. Available in English, 繁體中文, 简体中文, 日本語, Español, Português, Deutsch, Français.
What’s new
Version 1.1.3 · Updated August 5, 2026
Faster, lighter, and a lot more honest about what CleanScan can already do. - Fixed a memory issue that could cause the app to quit while browsing many scanned documents. - Rebuilt PDF export — large documents are now processed page by page and use far less memory. - Export now shows page-by-page progress. - Ads retry automatically after a poor connection instead of staying blank. - Corrected the privacy wording on the About screen: CleanScan shows non-personalised ads only, never asks to track you, and does not use an advertising identifier. - Fixed a layout issue on narrow screens. - Tidied up the tools menu.
App privacy
The developer, fung ka wa, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Not Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected but is not linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Identifiers: Device ID
Used for: Third-Party Advertising
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