TurboScan
TurboScan is a phone scanning app that turns camera photos of paper documents, books and archival material into straight, multi-page PDFs. It is mainly used for capturing long documents quickly and sending them to Dropbox, email or files.
#13 in Document & File ToolsDocument Scanner AppsNo free plan
Who it's for
Best for
Archivists and historians digitising books and papers into PDFs
Everyday phone owners who want fast multi-page PDFs with no fuss
Not for
Students who need to type notes onto scanned lecture pages
Book scanners who need more than a couple dozen pages in one file
Features
Camera document scanning
Captures paper documents, book pages and archival material with the phone camera, showing an adjustable frame so each page sits inside the shot.
Multi-page PDF output
Combines captured pages into one PDF file, or exports them as individual images, so a whole document comes out as a single tidy file.
Perspective correction
Straightens pages photographed at an angle so the finished copy looks flat, like it came off a photocopier rather than a handheld camera.
Contrast and black-and-white modes
Gives quick contrast settings and a black-and-white filter for text-heavy pages, alongside colour capture for documents where tone matters.
Direct export and cloud upload
Sends finished PDFs to email, Dropbox or the phone file storage, with cloud folders chosen while scanning so pages land in the right place.
What users say
Pros
- Scanning is fast, especially with a phone held on a tripod or overhead mount.
- It scans what it is pointed at and never interrupts with prompts or other tasks.
- Multi-page scans combine into a single PDF that saves directly to Dropbox, email or local files.
Cons
- There is no way to add notes to a scan without writing them on paper and photographing it.
- The black-and-white filter makes pages look like art-book reproductions rather than the original.
- A single scan stops at 24 pages, so long books have to be split into parts.
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Global Traffic Rank
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Better forExtracting editable text from documents and handwriting with multi-language OCRScanning documents for free without an upfront purchase and reopening them in Adobe Acrobat across devices.
Weaker atScanning without intrusive ads, surprise trial charges, or automatic cloud uploadsKeeping scans off vendor cloud servers by default and avoiding recurring feature prompts.