Scanner Pro
iPhone and iPad scanner with on-device OCR, PDF merging, signing and faxing.
Operated by Readdle Limited
Where your files are processed
Reported to stay on your device
Claimed by the vendor. Not yet independently verified.
Stated by the vendor in their own OCR article: Scanner Pro uses an on-device OCR model and does not upload recognised text to cloud storage. Their privacy FAQ adds that no files are transmitted to or stored on their servers. Caveat: the privacy notice says some AI features may use third-party providers, so not every newer feature is guaranteed to be local.
What it does
Scanner Pro turns an iPhone or iPad into a document scanner: it detects edges, corrects perspective, cleans up the image and saves multi-page PDFs or images. It adds an OCR text layer for searching and copying, merges and reorders pages, inserts signatures, and can fax documents. Cloud auto-upload, workflows and password protection are part of the paid subscription.
Best for: iPhone and iPad users who scan contracts, receipts and IDs and want searchable PDFs with OCR, plus lightweight editing and signing without a desktop.
Worth knowing: iOS only, and the free tier adds a watermark while withholding OCR, merging, PDF conversion and password protection. Faxing costs credits per page. On-device OCR is stated by the vendor, but newer AI features may use third-party providers.
Details, and where each comes from
Vendor statements, our own reading of their pages, and the things nobody has established yet, each answered separately. Where we have not confirmed something it says so rather than guessing, and a row nobody has established is greyed out.
- Versions covered
- iOS
- Website
- readdle.com
- Requires an account
- Not verified
- Free tier
- Yes
- Watermark on the free tier
- Yes
- Maximum file size
- Not verified
- Batch processing
- Yes
- Data residency
- Multiple regions
- Open source
- No
- Self-hostable
- No
- Licence
- proprietary
- Redaction
- No redaction feature
- Programmatic access
- None
- Last availability check
- Responded in 96 ms 16 October 2026
Checked automatically by our own runner, not reported by the vendor. 100% of our last 30 checks got a response.
What the redaction verdict rests on
From the vendor's own documentation, read 22 September 2026. Not tested by us.
What that does not establish: The vendor’s own site was read on 22 September 2026 and contains no mention of redaction, sanitisation, blackout or whiteout. Absence from a vendor’s own material is not proof that a feature does not exist — it may be undocumented, or on a page the reading did not reach — but for a NEGATIVE claim it is the strongest evidence available, and it is weaker than a positive quote. Recorded as such rather than presented as certainty.
What the vendor says
Claims are labelled rather than repeated as fact. Where we have checked something ourselves, it says so and shows when. Checked means we read the vendor's own page and it says what we recorded — not that we tested the behaviour, unless the note says we did.
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“Scanner Pro turns paper into clean, searchable PDFs in seconds with OCR, pro editing, and instant sharing, sync, print, and fax.”
Checked by us — the source says this Read 22 September 2026
Confirmed verbatim: the sentence is the product page's opening description, and a second description further down repeats the substance — "a mobile scanner app that turns paper into clean digital files". The claim lists eight capabilities in one breath, four of them in a trailing phrase ("sharing, sync, print, and fax"), and the page does not substantiate them individually on this page. This is the vendor whose on-device OCR claim was verified earlier in this campaign, and whose OCR support article was the source for it; the two entries describe the same product from different pages.
Standing: Re-read and matched byte for byte
Check it yourself: the source, the SHA-256, and how we checked
- From
- the text a browser renders
- SHA-256
- fcd647dff017bd788efd0fb4fdf1f303f036964d3ecb16f8f463f42c47dc01f7
How we checked: Re-verified verbatim on 2026-09-22: https://readdle.com/scannerpro re-rendered in headless Chrome with scripts/render-page.mjs and the claim's wording found in the rendered text. Originally verified on 2026-09-21. sourceHash is the SHA-256 of the re-rendered text, held as rv-readdle-com-scannerpro-c174ca29.txt.
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“Scanner Pro's OCR model runs entirely on-device. Recognized text is never uploaded to Readdle's servers or any cloud storage — it stays on your iPhone or iPad.”
Checked by us — the source says this Read 22 September 2026
The page supports the claim in full, but the wording in our record is ours rather than the vendor's, and this finding says so because the index renders claims in quotation marks. The page's own sentence is: "Scanner Pro's OCR model runs entirely on-device. Recognized text is never uploaded to Readdle's servers or any cloud storage — it stays on your iPhone or iPad." That is both stronger and more specific than the claim as recorded, which paraphrases it. A second limit is worth recording: the article defers the authoritative text to the application itself — "To review the full data handling policy, go to Settings → Privacy Policy inside the app" — so the policy governing this claim cannot be read on the web at all, and the claim rests on a support article rather than on the policy. Corrected on 2026-09-21: this entry used to carry our paraphrase of that sentence rather than the sentence, which is a misquotation when the index renders it in quotation marks. It now reads as the vendor wrote it, and the vendor's wording is stronger than ours was — "never uploaded to Readdle's servers or any cloud storage" against our "we don't upload".
Standing: Re-read and matched byte for byte
Check it yourself: the source, the SHA-256, and how we checked
- From
- the text a browser renders
- SHA-256
- e68c880c1684935922eaada8e81c7a56151eb48a7c9566c3b682608ef32775c1
How we checked: Re-verified verbatim on 2026-09-22: https://readdle.com/scannerpro/how-to-use-ocr-text-recognition re-rendered in headless Chrome with scripts/render-page.mjs and the claim's wording found in the rendered text. Originally verified on 2026-09-21. sourceHash is the SHA-256 of the re-rendered text, held as rv-readdle-com-scannerpro-how-to-use-ocr-text-recognition-cccd8c79.txt.
Each claim is quoted from the vendor's own pages. This section describes what we have and have not checked — it is not a judgement about anyone.
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