Tools
FP Scanner-photo scan
Document scanner with multi-language OCR, watermark-free PDFs and iCloud sync, with a paid tier.
Get the app
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- Developer
- Rocketplan Technology Limited
- Score
- 4.4
- Downloads
- 151 ratings
- Age
- Rated 4+
- Version
- 2.1.7
- Price
- Free
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About this app
Receipts, book pages, presentation slides, office paperwork and ID cards are what FP Scanner is built to photograph, clean up and turn into PDFs or editable text. It's a general-purpose scanner for people who are tired of typing things out by hand or walking to a print shop. The image engine removes cluttered backgrounds automatically and offers several optimisation modes plus manual adjustment of image parameters, and exported PDFs carry no watermark. OCR detects the language automatically and handles English, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Spanish, French, German, Arabic, Russian, Thai and a long list of others; recognised text is split into segments that can be edited, selected and copied into other apps. Files sync through iCloud as well as being stored locally, and the developer says uploads are encrypted. A monthly subscription is needed for some features, so the free download isn't the whole product.
FP Scanner-photo scan: the full guide
What the app is
Receipts, slides, book pages, office forms and ID cards are the targets for FP Scanner, a general scanner from Rocketplan that photographs paper and produces PDFs or editable text. The audience is people who'd rather not retype documents or queue at a copy shop.
Cluttered backgrounds are stripped automatically, several optimisation modes come with manual adjustment, and PDFs leave without a watermark. OCR picks the language itself across a long list including Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Arabic, Russian and Thai, breaking recognised text into editable segments. Files sit locally and sync via iCloud, with uploads encrypted. A monthly subscription gates some features.
How it works day to day
A scan takes a few seconds: frame the page, let the app find the edges and remove the background, pick a mode, save. Multi-language OCR is the bit that gets daily use for anyone handling documents in more than one script, since the text comes out segmented and ready to copy into a message or spreadsheet.
Files appear on the iPad through iCloud sync. When a feature turns out to be paid, the subscription prompt appears, so the free experience is partly a trial of the full one.
Why people look for it
People look for it when a scanner that only handles English isn't enough, and the automatic language detection across Asian, Arabic and Cyrillic scripts is the differentiator. The iCloud sync is a second reason. With 151 ratings and a 4.4 average it's a small-audience app, so most arrive through search for multilingual OCR rather than by reputation.
Look and feel
Five screenshots are on the page and will probably show the capture view, a before-and-after of background removal, the OCR result with text segments and the file list. Scanner apps in the Tools category keep to white backgrounds and document thumbnails, with the capture button prominent. The OCR screen, with selectable text blocks, is the one that will look different.
