PDF Éclair: Scanner & OCR

Olivier Popiers

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About this app

PDF Éclair turns your phone into a document scanner. Snap an invoice, a contract, a book page or a business card: the app detects the edges automatically, straightens the perspective and produces a sharp, searchable PDF — all offline, with no account and no internet connection.

100% OFFLINE
No server, no account to create: capture, editing, OCR and export all happen on your device, and your documents never leave it. The free version shows ads (Google AdMob); ad-free versions also never process your documents outside your device.

SMART CAPTURE
• Real-time automatic edge detection, with the shutter firing as soon as the framing is steady
• Burst capture to scan several pages in a row, with no screen in between
• Import existing photos from your gallery
• Low-light warning

A MODE FOR EVERY DOCUMENT
• Document — the standard mode, for any sheet of paper
• ID card — front and back merged automatically onto a single page
• Book — a single shot, two pages split at the binding
• Whiteboard — brightened background for clearly readable notes
• Business card — text recognition and a pre-filled contact card

EDITING AND FILTERS
• Manual cropping of the four corners, rotation in 90° steps
• Five filters: Color, Auto (enhanced contrast), Grayscale, Black & white, Whiteboard
• Lighting correction: softens shadows and glare without washing out logos
• Magic eraser to remove an unwanted element
• Freehand annotations in three colors
• Apply one setting to all pages at once

OCR AND EXPORT
• Offline text recognition (Latin script), automatic or on demand
• Export to PDF with a real searchable, highlightable text layer
• Also export as JPEG (one image per page) or TXT
• Convert recognized text to a Word (.docx) or RTF document, with the layout rebuilt

WATERMARK AND ORGANIZATION
• Customizable watermark (text, position, size, color, opacity) on exported files
• Library with folders, search by name or by already-recognized text, sort by date or name
• Merge and split documents, reorder pages by drag and drop
• Light or dark theme

Ideal for scanning invoices, contracts, handwritten notes, administrative papers, book pages or business cards — without ever leaving airplane mode.

What’s new

ZIP backup and restore of documents, pages, and signatures, from Settings.
Export moved to the Documents menu, in the library, and within the document.
Option to choose between sharing via other apps and saving to the phone.
Translations: English, Spanish, and Italian.

Bug fixes, including:
Export: JPEG and DOCX/RTF parallel processing is limited to prevent memory saturation.
Camera and import: Fixed ambiguity with “Size”