How to scan documents to PDF on iPhone
Contracts, receipts, school forms, handwritten notes — your iPhone camera can turn them into a clean, multi-page PDF in seconds. Fileroom's scanner finds the page edges, straightens the perspective and saves the PDF to your library, without uploading anything.
Free to download — no account, no uploads.
Step by step
- 01
Open the scanner
Open Fileroom and go to PDF tools › Scan documents.
- 02
Scan each page
Hold your iPhone over the page. Fileroom detects the edges and captures it — keep going for as many pages as you need.
- 03
Check and adjust
Review the pages and adjust any corners that weren't detected perfectly.
- 04
Save the PDF
Tap Save. The multi-page PDF lands in your library, ready to share, email or upload.
Tips
- Scan on a dark, flat surface — contrast helps edge detection.
- Use daylight or even room light and avoid shadows from your phone.
- Scan every page of a document in one session to get a single PDF.
- Run OCR afterwards to make the scan searchable (Fileroom Pro).
Frequently asked
- Is the document scanner free?
- Yes. Scanning to PDF is included in the free version of Fileroom.
- Are my scans uploaded anywhere?
- No. Scanning and PDF creation happen entirely on your iPhone — it even works in airplane mode.
- Can I make the scanned text searchable?
- Yes — run PDF tools › OCR (searchable PDF) on the scan. OCR is part of Fileroom Pro and supports English, Arabic, French, Spanish and German.
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