--- title: "PDF Scanner app for iPhone with text search, coming soon" description: "PDF Scanner turns paper into clean PDFs on iPhone and iPad and finds the words inside every scan. No ads, no account needed. Waiting for Apple's review." canonical: https://klmlabs.app/pdf-scanner/ updated: 2026-11-07 --- # PDF Scanner: scan paper to PDF and search the words inside PDF Scanner turns paper into clean PDFs with your iPhone or iPad camera. Its App Store name is “PDF Scanner App: OCR & Search”. It reads the text on your device when you save, so you can search the words inside every scan, copy them or share them. It has no ads, and no account is needed. **Status:** Submitted to the App Store, waiting for Apple's review. It isn't on the App Store yet, so there is no App Store page to link to. [Email me when it launches](mailto:support@klmlabs.app?subject=Notify%20me%3A%20PDF%20Scanner). No form and no mailing list: your email stays in our inbox, and we reply once, when the app is on the App Store. ## Pictures of the app - App Store screenshot headed “Paper in. Clean PDF out.”: a paper page scanned into a clean PDF (Submitted to the App Store, waiting for Apple’s review) - App Store screenshot headed “Find the words in every scan”: search results inside scanned documents (Submitted to the App Store, waiting for Apple’s review) - App Store screenshot of the Text tab: the words read from a scanned page, ready to copy (Submitted to the App Store, waiting for Apple’s review) - App Store screenshot of sharing a scan as a PDF, with the Large, Medium and Small sizes (Submitted to the App Store, waiting for Apple’s review) ## The problem it solves - You want to turn a paper page into a clean, readable PDF without a scanner or a computer. - You want to find a receipt or a letter by a word inside it, without opening every scan. - You want to copy the text off a page without typing it again. - You want a file small enough to email, without guessing at settings. - You want a scanner app without ads in your way. ## Why we're making it Most paper only needs three things: a clean copy, a way to find it again, and a small file to send. PDF Scanner does those. Every scan becomes searchable on your device, so the receipt you need is a word away, and the share sheet tells you the file's size before you send it. ## What it does Everything below is in the version waiting for Apple’s review. - Scan with the camera, many pages at a time; add pages later, or import photos. - Three looks for one page or all of them: Original, Grayscale or Black & White. Rotate, reorder or delete pages, and change your mind later. - The text is read on your device when you save and laid invisibly under the page, so search finds the words inside every scan, with a snippet and the word highlighted. - A Text tab with Copy All and Share Text. - Names from the date, or suggested from the page's text; folders, sorting and merging. - Share as a PDF or JPG in Large, Medium or Small, on Letter, A4 or Fit paper, with an optional PDF password, from the share sheet or to Files. ## Who it’s for Anyone with paper to keep or send: receipts for taxes, letters, school forms, warranty cards, a page of notes. - A freelancer scans a stack of receipts at the kitchen table, then finds the hardware-store receipt later by searching a word printed on it. - A tenant scans a letter from the landlord, copies the reference number from the Text tab and pastes it into an email. - A parent scans a three-page school form in Black & White and emails it at Small size so it goes through. - Someone keeps every warranty card in one folder and finds the right one by searching the product's name. ## Languages and devices The app is in English. Its App Store page is written in 14 languages. For iPhone and iPad. ## Price Prices will show on the App Store page once Apple approves the app, and in the app before you pay. ## Who makes it, and your data KLM Labs, a small app studio run by its founder, Mayank Kumar Grover, makes this app. [About KLM Labs and how we check our pages](https://klmlabs.app/about/) ### Your data - No account needed. - No ads in the app. - The text is read on your device, not uploaded. - Scanning works offline. ### Hear when it launches [Email support@klmlabs.app to be told at launch](mailto:support@klmlabs.app?subject=Notify%20me%3A%20PDF%20Scanner). No form and no mailing list: your email stays in our inbox, and we reply once, when the app is on the App Store. ### Our apps on the App Store now - [Construction Calculator by KLM Labs](https://klmlabs.app/construction-calculator/) - [Flip Clock by KLM Labs](https://klmlabs.app/flip-clock/) - [Invoice Maker by KLM Labs](https://klmlabs.app/invoice-maker/) ## More on this site - [Invoice Maker by KLM Labs](https://klmlabs.app/invoice-maker/): Facts about Invoice Maker by KLM Labs, the offline invoice and estimate app for iPhone and iPad: who it's for, what it does and doesn't, and its prices. - [Free invoice templates by trade](https://klmlabs.app/invoice-maker/invoice-templates/): Free invoice templates for consultants, electricians, handymen, roofers, landscapers, caterers and photographers: filled-in PDFs, every line explained. ## Other apps in the works - [Signer: sign and fill PDF documents on your iPhone](https://klmlabs.app/esign-app/): Signer is an eSign app for iPhone and iPad: sign a PDF, fill in its blanks and share it, no account needed. Built and waiting for Apple's review. - [Saldo: a budget planner that shows what's left until payday](https://klmlabs.app/budget-planner/): Saldo is a budget planner in design for iPhone and iPad: log a purchase in seconds and see what's left until payday. Planned in five languages. [See all the apps KLM Labs has in the works](https://klmlabs.app/coming-soon/) ## Sources 1. [KLM Labs' apps on the App Store (the developer page; PDF Scanner joins it once Apple approves it)](https://apps.apple.com/us/developer/mayank-kumar-grover/id6815655787) 2. [Apple: App Review, how Apple reviews an app before it goes on the App Store](https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/) The facts on this page come from PDF Scanner's own build files and its App Store listing as sent to Apple, read on the day this page was last updated. Page last updated November 7, 2026.