Pages to send
Choose pages for PDF or JPG; standard or compact quality. Your complete document stays saved.
Open videoNo account · No cloud · No watermark
Send the pages that matter.
Scan paperwork, choose which pages to send and cover details in a new copy. Free PDF and JPG export, without a watermark.
Get it on Google Play free · Android 8+Pila Pro: one purchase. No subscription. Google Play shows your local price.
See it in Pila
Three small jobs. Ready to send.
Choose pages and redact a copy for free. Keep a reusable signature with Pro.
Redacted copy
Choose the details to hide in a new copy. Review it before sharing. Your original, previous exports and backups stay saved.
Open videoSaved signature
Draw and save your signature. Reuse it, move it and resize it before applying it to a document.
Open videoReal app captures with sample documents. Interface in English; titles and captions in English. Three 15-second videos, without audio.
Missing your old scanner?
Whiteboards, business cards, read aloud. Offline.
Whiteboards, business cards and recognised text: useful tools with document processing on your device.
Whiteboard
Reflections gone, marker colours kept
Point the camera at a whiteboard. Pila divides out the glare and the grey and leaves the blue, red and green strokes as they were.
Business card
Straight into Contacts
Recognise a card and Contacts opens with the name, phone, email and company already filled in. No permission needed.
Read aloud
Listen to any page
The recognised text is read with the phone's own voice. Useful for long letters, useful for tired eyes.
Word
Text to a .docx
Any recognised page can be saved as a Word document, paragraph by paragraph, without a library and without the cloud.
Five scripts
Latin, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Devanagari
The recognition models ship inside the app. Pick the script by hand when a document is not in your phone's language.
The app
A dark desk, sheets of paper, one lamp.
Real Pila screens: the desk, signing and the whiteboard filter. The app interface is available in 13 languages.
Everything else
A desk, not a folder tree.
Your scans sit on a dark desk as stacks of paper. Drag one stack onto another and they merge, the way you square up two piles of sheets. Reorder sheets by dragging them.
- Scan with edge detection and perspective correction, up to 50 sheets at a time. Straighten by hand when the camera gets it wrong.
- Filters made for paper. Original, Paper, High contrast, Whiteboard, and a black-and-white mode with an adaptive threshold: a shadow no longer becomes a black patch.
- Pila Pro. Sign with your finger, anywhere on the page. The signature is burned in at full resolution, so it comes out in the PDF and in the images.
- Searchable PDFs. Once a page has been recognised, the text sits invisibly under the image. Any viewer finds it and selects it.
- Search the desk by stack name or by the text on your sheets, accents ignored.
- Import photos and PDFs, or share them to Pila from any app. PDF pages become sheets and go through the same review as a scan.
- ID card mode: front and back on one A4 page, the way a photocopier would do it.
- App lock with your fingerprint, face or screen lock, and password-protected PDFs for the one that has to leave the phone.
- A backup you own. Export everything to a zip, keep it wherever you like, restore it on the next phone. Restoring adds what is missing and never overwrites.
- 13 languages, right-to-left Arabic included, a home-screen widget and a shortcut that open the scanner directly.
Private by design
Your documents are processed on your device.
No account, no cloud
There is no sign-up and no sign-in. Scans live in the app's private storage and go away with the uninstall.
Recognition runs here
Edges, straightening and OCR happen on the device. No image and no text is uploaded to be processed.
They leave only when you say so
You choose sharing, exports, backups and device transfers. Advertising, analytics and purchases use online services.
Pricing
Start free. Add Pro for repeat paperwork.
Scanning, page selection, standard or compact export, favorites and redacted copies are free. The free plan includes ads and offers optional rewarded ads for text recognition.
Pila Pro
Save and reuse your drawn signature, export in high resolution and add tools for recurring documents. Pro also removes ads and recognizes new pages automatically.
- No ads
- Unlimited OCR
- Automatic OCR
- Saved signature
- High resolution
Price in Google Playone purchase · no subscription
The price is shown in your currency inside Google Play. Purchases are handled by Google Play Billing: Pila never sees your payment details.
Free and Pro
Choose the tools your paperwork needs.
| Tool | Free | Pila Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Pages to send | Choose pages for PDF or JPG; standard or compact quality. Your complete document stays saved. | Also create a new stack from selected pages and export in high resolution. |
| PDF size | Compact PDF and the actual generated size. | Choose a target in MB and save a profile. The target may not be reached; review the achieved size. |
| Saved signature | — | Draw and save your signature. Reuse it, move it and resize it before applying it to a document. |
| Document name | Rename your document and export file manually. | Get a suggested name from recognized text. Edit it and accept it when ready. |
| Favorites and client tags | Favorites, search, and viewing or filtering existing tags. | Also edit tags for clients or tasks. |
| Receipt CSV | — | Review merchant, date, total and currency before exporting your receipts as CSV. |
| Redacted copy | Choose the details to hide in a new copy. Review it before sharing. Your original, previous exports and backups stay saved. | Included, with the same review before sharing. |
Name suggestions and receipt fields use existing OCR and local rules, mainly for English and Spanish. Review the result before using it.
Questions
What people ask before installing.
Do I need internet to use Pila?
OCR, filters, signatures and exports work offline. The scanner may need an initial component download. You choose sharing, exports, backups and device transfers. Advertising, analytics and purchases use online services.
Where are my documents kept?
Pila stores documents in its private storage on your device. Uninstalling removes that storage; copies you exported or shared remain wherever you sent them.
What happens when I change phones?
Export a backup, a zip file, and keep it wherever you like: Downloads, a pen drive or your own cloud. On the new phone, restore it from Settings. Restoring adds the stacks that are missing and never overwrites the ones already there.
Is Pro a subscription?
No. Pro is a one-time purchase at the local price shown in Google Play. It is tied to your Play account and can be restored on a phone using the same account.
Does it recognise text in my language?
The models for Latin, Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Devanagari scripts ship inside the app. Each of them also reads Latin. Arabic has no recognition model yet, although the interface is available in Arabic.