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📱 The Quest for a Private Document Scanner

It started when I realized most scanning apps send documents into the cloud. Contracts, medical files, financial papers — all leaving my device without my control. I wanted something different.

The Vision

Skanae scans and organizes documents entirely on your iPhone or iPad. No cloud, no internet, no risk. AI helps with automatic classification, but it all runs locally. You choose where to store files: locally, iCloud, Google Drive, or OneDrive.

The Build

The hardest part wasn’t UI — it was running a Vision Large Model entirely on-device.
Optimizing a VLM to fit into mobile constraints meant reducing size from hundreds of MBs, pruning layers, and quantizing weights.
The result: fast, private document classification without ever leaving the iPhone or iPad.

The Breakthrough

The first time the VLM correctly categorized a contract, a receipt, and an ID offline, I knew it worked.
Testing in airplane mode proved everything ran privately, right in my pocket.

The Impact

Skanae gives professionals and privacy-conscious users a trustworthy scanner. The mission is simple: powerful technology without sacrificing privacy.

Built With

• swift
• xcode