It depends on how you feel about tracking: Camera Scanner PDF Converter declares data used to track you. The sensitive items are location and contacts. In total the label lists 2 data types; 64% of document scanners we checked declare tracking.
Camera Scanner PDF Converter privacy in one look
- 1Collects nothing
- 2Not linked
- 3Linked
- 4Tracks you
Built only from the developer's App Store label. It describes disclosure, not tested behaviour.
Camera Scanner PDF Converter's developer reports using location, contacts to track you across other companies' apps and websites.
Did Camera Scanner PDF Converter ask for something?
Pick the permission prompt you saw. We compare it with what Camera Scanner PDF Converter's developer declared.
Camera Scanner PDF Converter lists Location on its label, including for tracking. Choose While Using and turn off Precise Location if the feature works without it.
User Content is not on Camera Scanner PDF Converter's label. That can be fine: data used only on your iPhone does not have to be declared. If the data would need to leave the phone for the feature to work, ask why it is missing.
Camera Scanner PDF Converter lists Contacts on its label, including for tracking. Limited Access shares selected contacts instead of your whole address book.
Camera Scanner PDF Converter declares data used to track you, so expect the “Allow to track?” prompt. Tap Ask App Not to Track; the app must keep working without it.
Health & Fitness is not on Camera Scanner PDF Converter's label. That can be fine: data used only on your iPhone does not have to be declared. If the data would need to leave the phone for the feature to work, ask why it is missing.
A permission is what the app can reach on your iPhone; the label is what the developer says leaves it. They answer different questions.
What Camera Scanner PDF Converter collects, explained
| Data type | What it covers | Where to limit it |
|---|---|---|
| LocationSensitiveUsed to track youLinked to you | Where your phone is, either precisely (street level) or approximately (city or area). | Settings › Privacy & Security › Location Services: choose Never or While Using, and turn off Precise Location if the app does not need it. |
| ContactsSensitiveUsed to track youLinked to you | The people in your address book or social graph. | Settings › Privacy & Security › Contacts: choose Limited Access to share only selected people, or None. |
What Camera Scanner PDF Converter's label means for you
Camera Scanner PDF Converter's label has 2 types under “Data Used to Track You”, 2 types under “Data Linked to You”. A data type can appear in more than one section when it is used for different purposes — for example, identifiers used for both analytics and advertising.
Tracking is the declaration that most separates apps. It means location, contacts from Camera Scanner PDF Converter can be combined with data from other companies to target or measure ads, or shared with data brokers. On iOS 14.5 and later, the app must ask your permission before tracking you through the advertising identifier; answering “Ask App Not to Track” blocks that identifier and tells the developer you have declined.
The items that deserve the most attention are location and contacts. Location history reveals home, work and routines. Precise location deserves the most scrutiny.
Scanners handle IDs, contracts, receipts and medical letters. Many offer cloud OCR, which means your document images leave the phone. Prefer on-device text recognition where offered, and check whether scans sync to the developer's cloud by default.
Among the 173 document scanners in our snapshot with a label, 64% declare tracking, 68% collect data linked to you and 20% say they collect nothing. Camera Scanner PDF Converter lists 2 data types, about the same as the average of 2.8 for this group.
Productivity apps tend to collect the work you do in them — documents, notes and files — so User Content is common. The question is whether it syncs to the developer's servers and how it is protected there.
Settings to check for Camera Scanner PDF Converter
- 1
Tracking
Settings › Privacy & Security › Tracking. If “Allow Apps to Request to Track” is off, apps cannot ask, and they are told to treat you as having declined. You can also turn it off for this app alone.
- 2
Location
Settings › Privacy & Security › Location Services › Camera Scanner PDF Converter. Choose While Using or Never, and switch off Precise Location if a city-level answer is enough.
- 3
Photos
Settings › Privacy & Security › Photos. Limited Access lets you pick exactly which pictures the app can see; Add Photos Only lets it save without reading your library.
- 4
Contacts
Settings › Privacy & Security › Contacts. Limited Access shares only the people you select instead of your whole address book.
- 5
Lock the app
On iOS 18 and later, touch and hold the icon and choose Require Face ID. Anyone who picks up your unlocked phone then needs your face, fingerprint or passcode to open it.
- 6
Notifications
Settings › Notifications › Camera Scanner PDF Converter › Show Previews: When Unlocked keeps message and account details off the Lock Screen.
Does Camera Scanner PDF Converter track you?
Location and contacts. Apple defines tracking as linking data from this app with data from other companies' apps, websites or offline sources for targeted advertising or ad measurement, or sharing it with a data broker.
Does Camera Scanner PDF Converter track you? Full answer and how to stop it →
Lock Camera Scanner PDF Converter behind Face ID
- Find Camera Scanner PDF Converter on your Home Screen or in App Library.
- Touch and hold the icon until the quick-actions menu opens.
- Tap Require Face ID (or Require Touch ID / Require Passcode, depending on your iPhone).
- Tap Require Face ID again to confirm. Camera Scanner PDF Converter now asks for authentication every time it opens.
The lock is an iPhone feature, so it works whether or not Camera Scanner PDF Converter has a passcode of its own. It does not change what the app sends to its developer.
About Camera Scanner PDF Converter
| Developer | Liger Infotech |
| App Store category | Productivity (also Business) |
| Latest version | 9.4, released October 2026 |
| First released | December 2021 |
| Requires | iOS 15.0 or later |
| Size | 167 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ |
| Languages | 1 (EN) |
| Bundle ID | com.manufacturingbiss.camScan |
The current version shipped in October 2026, so the app is actively maintained and its label is likely current. Labels are updated by developers when practices change.
Also by Liger Infotech: Photo Vault & App Lock Safedoc.
What the label cannot tell you
- A label is self-reported. Apple publishes the developer's answers and can reject apps that misrepresent them, but it does not independently verify what Camera Scanner PDF Converter sends.
- It does not say where data is stored, how long it is kept, whether it is encrypted, or which companies receive it. The privacy policy covers those points.
- Optional data counts: if a feature lets you add something (a profile photo, a phone number), the type is listed even if you never use the feature.
- Data handled only on your iPhone is not 'collected', so a no-collection label is compatible with an app that reads your files locally.
- Third-party sign-in, payment processors and SDKs are supposed to be included, but a label can lag behind a new version.
The question to ask Camera Scanner PDF Converter's developer: Are my scans processed on the phone or uploaded for OCR?
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Your Camera Scanner PDF Converter privacy checklist
Done. You have applied every control the label points to.
True or false?
- Right.Not quite.
True: it lists location and contacts under Data Used to Track You.
- Right.Not quite.
Labels are self-reported by developers. Apple can reject or remove apps that misrepresent practices, but it does not audit each label.
- Right.Not quite.
True: Location appears on its label.
- Right.Not quite.
It is collected and sent; the developer says it is de-identified rather than tied to your account or device.
- Right.Not quite.
Apple's rules require apps to work the same whether or not you allow tracking.