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Pix Scan turns your Android phone into a PDF scanner, OCR text reader and PDF editor. It can even read your documents aloud or save them as an MP3. Everything runs on your phone, so your files stay yours.
How it works
No settings to learn. Point your camera, check the result, and send it where it needs to go.
Edge detection finds the page and takes the shot. Scan up to 100 pages at once, or import photos from your gallery.
Pick Enhance, Grayscale or B&W for one page or all of them. Crop, rotate and reorder pages with a drag.
Send a PDF, images, text or audio by email, WhatsApp, Telegram or any app. Or save a copy to any folder on your phone.
Features
A scanner, a text reader, a PDF editor and an audiobook maker, sharing one tidy library.
Hold your phone over a page and Pix Scan finds the edges for you. It works for contracts, receipts, notes and book pages.
Built-in OCR (text recognition) turns scans, photos and PDFs into text you can use, right on your phone.
New
Read Aloud speaks your PDFs, scans and photos, and highlights each sentence as it goes. Turn study notes or long reports into audio you can play on a walk, in the car or in any music app.
Missed a page or scanned one upside down? Edit any PDF in place, including ones you didn't scan.
PDF tools
The jobs you'd usually upload to a website, done on your phone instead.
Lock a PDF with AES-256 encryption before you send it, or remove a password you no longer need.
Draw your signature once and place it on any PDF.
Shrink large PDFs so they fit in an email.
Combine several PDFs into one file.
Turn PDF pages into images to share.
Write a document with headings, lists, bold and colour, then export it as A4, A3, A5, A6, Letter or Legal.
Zoom, full screen, go to page, and search inside PDFs. Opens where you stopped.
Search, sort and select several files to share, merge or delete, with undo.
Open PDFs shared from other apps straight into Pix Scan.
Private by design
IDs, contracts and medical records shouldn't sit on someone else's server. Pix Scan does the scanning, text recognition, editing and read aloud on your device. There's no account to create and nothing to upload.
The app sends usage statistics and crash reports so we can fix bugs, never your documents. A few phone voices for read aloud need a connection; the app marks them. Read the privacy policy.
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Made for real life
Scan, sign and send contracts, invoices and receipts without finding a printer.
Digitize notes and handouts, then listen to them on the bus or save them as audio.
Hear any document with the voice, speed and pitch that suit you.
Go paperless with bills, warranties, school forms and medical records.
Why Pix Scan
Plenty of scanner apps are free until you try to save. Here's what you get with Pix Scan.
| Feature | Pix Scan | Many scanner apps |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free, every feature | Weekly or yearly subscription |
| Ads | None | Banners and video ads |
| Watermarks | None | Often on free exports |
| Account | Not needed | Often required |
| Where files go | Stay on your phone | Synced to a cloud |
| Read aloud & MP3 | Built in | Rare |
FAQ
Yes. There's no subscription, no premium tier, no ads and no hidden costs. Every feature on this page is included.
Yes. Scanning, text recognition (OCR), editing, the PDF tools and read aloud all work without internet. A few phone voices for read aloud need a connection, and the app marks them.
No. Your documents stay on your phone and you don't need an account. The app sends usage statistics and crash reports to help us fix bugs, but never your documents.
Yes. Open a PDF, scan or photo, and export it as an MP3 or M4A file from Read Aloud or the Tools tab. Pix Scan uses the voice and speed you picked for Read Aloud.
Text recognition reads Latin-script languages such as English, Spanish, French and German. PDFs that already contain text work in any language.
Up to 100 pages in one scan. You can also import photos from your gallery and add pages to any PDF later.
Yes. Pix Scan adds a password with AES-256 encryption, and it can remove a password from a PDF you can already open.
No. Your PDFs come out clean, with no watermark or branding.
Right now Pix Scan is available for Android on Google Play.
16: English, Bengali, Chinese, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Thai, Turkish and Vietnamese.
Free on Google Play
Scan, read, edit and listen to your documents with one lightweight app. No ads, no subscription, no account.
Scan with your phone's camera to install