Privacy policy
Last updated: 1 August 2026
DocScan is a document scanner that runs entirely on your device.
Nothing. DocScan has no account, no analytics, no advertising, and no crash-reporting service. It does not send your documents, the text recognised from them, or anything about how you use the app to the developer or to anyone else.
Your scans, the processed versions of them, and the text recognised from them are stored in DocScan’s private storage on your device. Other apps cannot read them.
Nothing is sent anywhere automatically. Uninstalling DocScan deletes everything in its private storage permanently, so unless you have set up a backup folder (below), there is no copy anywhere else — export anything you want to keep before uninstalling or changing phones.
Android’s own backup and device-to-device transfer are switched off for this app, so your documents are not copied to Google’s servers or handed to a new phone during setup. That is a deliberate choice, not a default.
You can delete any page or document from inside the app at any time.
DocScan can mirror your documents to a folder you pick through Android’s system folder picker — Google Drive, OneDrive, a network share, an SD card, or internal storage. This is off until you choose a destination.
When it is on, DocScan writes to that folder: a PDF of each document, the original captured images, and an index file recording your folder names, page order, chosen looks and the text recognised from your pages. That index is what lets a new phone rebuild your library.
The destination is your storage under your own account. There is no DocScan server and no DocScan account. Whatever provider you picked handles that data under its own privacy policy, and you can remove the destination at any time in Settings.
Text recognition runs on your device. The recognition model is included in the app itself, which is why it works with no network connection at all. Recognised text is stored only on your device, and is used only to let you search your own scans.
The camera scanner is provided by Google Play services. Images captured are handed to DocScan and saved to your device.
Google’s ML Kit components used by this app report technical diagnostics to Google — such as device model, operating system version, and whether a feature succeeded or failed. This is Google’s collection, not DocScan’s, and is described in Google’s own privacy documentation. DocScan neither receives nor has access to it.
If you would rather not use Google’s scanner at all, the “Import” option uses Android’s own photo picker instead.
Documents leave your device only when you choose to share or export them — for example exporting a PDF and sending it somewhere. At that point the app you send it to handles it under its own privacy policy.
DocScan requests only network access, which Google Play services requires in order to supply the camera scanner. DocScan itself makes no network requests.
It does not request access to your photo library. Importing images uses Android’s system photo picker, which gives the app only the specific images you pick.
DocScan is a general-purpose utility and is not directed at children. It collects no data from anyone, of any age.
If this policy changes, the date at the top will change with it.
Questions about this policy can be sent to the developer at the email address listed on the app’s Google Play listing.