In short: AI PDF Scanner does not collect, upload or share your data. It goes online only to download optional AI models, and only when you tap Download. Your scans and everything the app does with them stay encrypted on your device, and leave it only when you choose to share or save a file.
None. The app has no accounts and no sign-in. It contains no advertising, analytics, crash reporting or tracking tools, and it shares nothing with third parties. The developer never receives your documents, your recognised text, your voice or any information about how you use the app.
To work, the app keeps the following on your phone: the pages you scan or import, the PDFs it creates, recognised text, your notes, highlights and signatures, folders, tags, and settings. All of it is stored encrypted, with a key protected by your phone's Android Keystore. It is excluded from Android's automatic cloud backup, so it is not copied to Google Drive or any other online service.
Every feature runs on the phone itself: edge detection and image enhancement, text recognition (OCR), handwriting recognition, translation, voice commands and dictation, and duplicate detection. Nothing is sent to a server for processing.
Voice commands, dictation, translation, handwriting recognition and some text recognition languages use AI models that you can download once from within the app (Settings > Offline AI models, or when you first use the feature). A download starts only when you tap Download. The app then fetches the model files from our download server over an encrypted (HTTPS) connection. Like any download, this reveals your device's IP address to the server; we do not use it to identify you or link it to anything else. The app sends nothing else: your documents, photos, recognised text, handwriting and voice recordings never leave your phone. Each file is checked against a signed list before it is used. After downloading, these features work without an internet connection, and you can remove the models at any time in Settings > Offline AI models.
You can deny or withdraw any permission in Android Settings. The rest of the app keeps working, apart from the feature that needs that permission.
Only when you act:
Deleted documents go to Trash and are permanently deleted after 30 days. You can also empty Trash yourself at any time. Uninstalling the app permanently deletes everything stored inside it. Files you exported, shared or backed up elsewhere stay where you saved them, until you delete them there.
The app uses no advertising networks, no analytics or crash-reporting services, no cloud storage and no social sign-in. Google Play handles app downloads and updates under Google's privacy policy. The optional AI model files are served from a file-hosting service on our behalf; it receives only the download request described above. The app itself does not send Google, the hosting service or anyone else any of your data.
Documents and app data are encrypted on your phone. The encryption key is protected by the Android Keystore, and you can add an app lock that uses your phone's PIN, fingerprint or face unlock. Backups are encrypted with a password you choose. No method of storage is perfectly secure, so keep your phone's own lock turned on and keep your backup passwords safe.
Because the developer holds no personal data about you, there is nothing on the developer's side to access, correct, export or delete. You stay in full control of your data on your phone: you can view, export, share and delete it in the app, or remove all of it by uninstalling the app. These rights apply wherever you live, including under the GDPR (EU and UK), the CCPA (California) and India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023.
The app does not collect personal information from anyone, including children.
If this policy changes, the new version will be posted on this page with a new effective date. Any change that would mean collecting data would require an app update, and this policy would be updated before that happened.
Questions about this policy or the app: vijaypalanisamywork@gmail.com