Automatic edge detection
Page boundaries are found as you frame the shot, then the capture is straightened so the result looks scanned rather than photographed.
Document Scanner
Every document, straightened and filed.
Point your camera at a receipt, a contract or a page of notes. Papyrus finds the edges, corrects the perspective and gives you a clean, shareable PDF, without sending a single page anywhere.
Works offline
No account needed
Nothing leaves your device
No subscription
How it works
Three steps, a few seconds
1
Point and capture
The live overlay tracks the page as you move. Capture when it locks on, or let auto-capture take the shot once the frame holds steady.
2
Adjust if you want to
Corners are detected for you and can be dragged. Rotate, crop, apply a filter, or remove something from the page.
3
Save and share
Export as a PDF or an image, print it, or send it straight on through the usual share sheet.
Features
Built for the documents you actually deal with
Receipts that need filing, forms that need signing off, pages you want out of your hands and into a folder.
Multi-page documents
Add pages one scan at a time, reorder them by dragging, and remove any you don't want. One document, however many pages it takes.
Filters and adjustments
Clean up a page with a filter, or fine-tune brightness, contrast, sharpness and warmth until it reads clearly.
PDF and image export
Export a whole document as a PDF at the size you choose, or share a single page as an image. Print straight from the app.
Search inside your scans
Papyrus reads the words on a page, so you can find a document by what it says and not just what you called it. The recognition runs on your phone, like everything else here.
Redact what should stay private
Draw a box over an account number or an address and it is deleted from the image, not covered by a rectangle someone can lift off the finished PDF.
Named for you
A scan arrives called Invoice 2026-0431 rather than a timestamp, taken from the heading on the page. Rename it yourself and Papyrus leaves it alone.
Folders, favourites and search
Sort scans into folders, star the ones you reach for, and search across everything. Deleted items sit in a trash you can undo.
Lock it behind Face ID
Protect the app with a PIN or biometrics, and have it lock itself after a period away. Your paperwork stays yours.
Pricing
Free to scan. One payment for the rest.
No subscription and nothing that renews. Buy Papyrus Premium once and it stays yours, on every device you sign in to.
Free
Nothing
The whole scanner. Not a trial, and not limited by how much you use it.
- Unlimited scans and documents
- Edge detection and perspective correction
- Filters and manual adjustments
- Folders, favourites and search by name
- PDF and image export, and printing
- Face ID, Touch ID or PIN lock
Premium
One payment
Everything in Free, plus the features that read a page rather than just photograph it.
- Text recognition, entirely on your device
- Search inside your scans, not just their names
- PDFs whose text can be selected, searched and copied
- Redaction that deletes rather than covers
- Scans named from what is written on them
- Exports and prints without the Papyrus mark
| Feature | Free | Premium |
|---|---|---|
| Scanning | ||
| Automatic edge detection, with a live outline | Yes | Yes |
| Auto-capture when the page is held steady | Yes | Yes |
| Perspective correction | Yes | Yes |
| Import photos you already took | Yes | Yes |
| Multi-page documents, reordered and retaken | Yes | Yes |
| Editing | ||
| Adjust the crop by dragging the corners | Yes | Yes |
| Filters, brightness, contrast, sharpness, warmth | Yes | Yes |
| Rotate, and remove marks from a page | Yes | Yes |
| Redact private details, deleted from the image | No | Yes |
| Reading | ||
| Text recognition, on your device | No | Yes |
| Search inside your scans | No | Yes |
| PDFs whose text can be selected and searched | No | Yes |
| Copy the text out of a document | No | Yes |
| Choose the recognition language | No | Yes |
| Scans named from what is written on them | No | Yes |
| Organising | ||
| Folders, favourites and search by name | Yes | Yes |
| Trash, so a mistake is not the end of it | Yes | Yes |
| Sharing | ||
| Export as PDF, at the file size you choose | Yes | Yes |
| Share a page as an image, or print it | Yes | Yes |
| Exports without the Papyrus mark | No | Yes |
| Privacy | ||
| Works with the network switched off | Yes | Yes |
| No account, no analytics, no tracking | Yes | Yes |
| Face ID, Touch ID or PIN lock | Yes | Yes |
Privacy
Your documents never leave your phone
Scans are written to your device's private storage and stay there until you delete them or choose to share one. Nothing is uploaded. The app contacts a server only to report a crash, and a crash report never contains any part of a scan.
- No account, no sign-in, no email address
- No analytics or tracking
- Scans are never uploaded. Scanning works in airplane mode
- You decide where a document goes when you share it