PDF Scanner App: Documents

Zoho Corporation

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About this app

Zoho Scanner is a document scanner and PDF maker app that helps students, freelancers, small business owners and teams digitise their papers — scan with your phone camera, then e-sign, extract and edit the text, translate, share, and run it all through a workflow you set up once.

Use it when a signed copy has to go back the same day, when you need the words out of a printed page, when a document must be read in another language, or when the same kind of scan always goes to the same folder.

PDF SCANNER: SCAN DOCUMENTS AND DIGITISE THEM
Hold your camera over a page. The scanner app auto-detects the edges, straightens the image and clears shadows. Crop, rotate, resize, reorder pages and apply filters that turn a dull photo into a crisp black-and-white scan, then export as PDF or PNG in one tap. Batch scan a stack of pages into a single PDF, and mark up scans with three marker tools.

TEXT RECOGNITION (OCR): IMAGE TO TEXT
Extract text from any scan and edit it. Works on printed documents, books and handwriting. Copy it, share it as a .txt file, or search inside your scanned documents using words printed on the page — so a doc you filed months ago is findable.

E-SIGN DOCUMENTS
Drop in your signature from Zoho Sign, add initials, name, date and email, then send the signed PDF straight back — so a form that arrives on paper never needs printing.

TRANSLATE INTO 17 LANGUAGES
Translate scanned text into 17 languages, including French, Spanish, German, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese and Italian. Send it as a file or copy it into a message.

SHARE, AUTO-UPLOAD AND BUILD WORKFLOWS
Send scans over WhatsApp, email or any messaging app, and auto-upload to Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, Zoho WorkDrive, Zoho Expense or Zoho Notebook. Build a workflow once and the same document type always lands in the same place — one tap, not five.

ORGANISE EVERYTHING
Create folders, add tags and set reminders. Zia reads the content inside each scan and suggests tags, so documents file themselves.

EVERY CONVERSION YOU NEED
Scan to PDF. Image to PDF. JPG to PDF. Photo to PDF. Multi-page PDF from a stack of pages. Image to text. Scan to Word-ready text. Export as PNG when you need an image. The PDF maker is built in — no second app, no uploading to a website.

WHAT PEOPLE SCAN
ID and PAN card copies, marksheets and certificates, lecture notes and assignments, rent agreements, GST invoices and bills, receipts, insurance papers, prescriptions — anything you need to send as a PDF.

QUESTIONS PEOPLE ASK

Who is Zoho Scanner for?
Students scanning lecture notes, assignments and question papers; freelancers and small business owners scanning invoices, receipts and contracts; teams filing expenses into Zoho Expense and Zoho WorkDrive; and anyone who needs a paper document as a PDF in the next thirty seconds.

I already use CamScanner. Can I move my documents across?
Yes. Import your scanned docs from CamScanner into Zoho Scanner in a jiffy — available in the Android app.

Does it work offline?
Yes. Scan now, sync later.

Can I keep my documents private?
Lock documents behind your fingerprint. Zoho Scanner shows no ads, puts no watermark on documents you share, and Zoho does not sell user data.

What is free and what is paid?
Zoho Scanner is free to download and use — scan and export PDF documents without paying. Basic is a one-time purchase that adds app themes, document reminders, fingerprint lock, content search, extra filters, watermark-free sharing and 2 workflows. Premium is a subscription that adds OCR text export, translation, e-signing, Google Drive backup, unlimited workflows, auto-upload to cloud storage, Zia tag suggestions and read-aloud.

Zoho Scanner is a doc scanner and scanner app for Android phones and tablets. Built by Zoho, trusted by 100+ million users worldwide. 500,000+ downloads on Google Play.

Ratings and reviews

I have a Samsung S9 which has a phenomenal camera. It takes great clear pictures even in nominal light. However, this app doesn't appear to make use of the camera's digital processing. The scans are easy to take. But, the results are slightly out-of-focus, and whites are dingy gray. I can take much better photos and simply crop them using the camera's internal app than what the Doc Scanner app can produce. The only feature that is somewhat useful is auto-scan. But, it needs a confidence button.

New UI makes it's extra tedious to download directly to my files. The app was already perfect. It didn't need an overhaul. To go into detail, the app now wants you to make an account for features that were previously available without the account, where as before it allowed a streamlined access to convert files to pdf's that I could upload on Canvas, but now, even that doesn't work anymore. Dev's I don't know whose holding you hostage to make an extra buck, the app is useless now.

The app is good. But, I want to scan many documents (PDF) and then transfer it to my laptop/desktop (via USB cable). I searched and I couldn't find where the scanned documents are stored in the internal memory of the phone. Sharing option is not good for me as I don't have good data connectivity in my phone at work. Please let me know where I can find the scanned files in the phone's internal storage.