Obscura Scanner: PDF & OCR

ObscuraLabs

About this app

Turn documents, receipts, notes, forms, IDs, and photos into clean, professional-quality PDFs in seconds.

Completely free. No ads. No subscriptions. No account required.

Obscura is a privacy-first PDF scanner that performs scanning, image enhancement, PDF creation, and OCR directly on your device. Your documents stay under your control. There are no forced cloud uploads, and you decide when and how to share your files.

Fast, Accurate Scanning

✓ Intelligent document detection with smooth, stable tracking
✓ Fast capture with automatic perspective correction
✓ High-quality scans optimized for readability
✓ Black-and-white mode for crisp text
✓ Import existing photos and convert them into PDFs

Powerful Editing

✓ Adjust document corners with precision
✓ Crop and rotate individual pages
✓ Annotate documents before saving
✓ Preview, reorder, or delete pages
✓ Choose PDF compression to balance quality and file size
✓ Combine multiple scans into a single PDF

Built-in OCR

✓ Extract text from scanned documents and images
✓ Create searchable PDFs
✓ Copy or share recognized text instantly
✓ OCR processing performed locally on your device

Organize Your Files

✓ Save PDFs wherever you choose
✓ Create custom folders
✓ Quickly search your documents
✓ Sort files in multiple ways
✓ Select and manage multiple documents
✓ Export documents as ZIP archives

Designed for Privacy

✓ No account required
✓ No forced cloud storage
✓ Core scanning and OCR work offline
✓ Your documents remain on your device unless you choose to share them
✓ Anonymous crash reports help improve app stability

Completely Free

✓ Unlimited document scanning
✓ Unlimited OCR
✓ Unlimited photo imports
✓ Unlimited PDF creation
✓ No subscriptions
✓ No advertisements
✓ No watermark on your documents

Fast. Private. Offline.

Download Obscura and keep complete control of your documents.

What’s new

Obscura Scanner is now completely free! 🎉

We've also made it smoother, faster, and more reliable than ever.

• Sharper document edge detection in low light and low-contrast scenes
• Smoother, more stable document tracking
• Better OCR accuracy and text selection
• New OCR Match indicator for clearer feedback
• Automatic capture for faster scanning
• Bug fixes and refinements