Coming soon · Document Scanner and Vault

Pitot

A self-contained document scanning and storage app for people who want important records searchable, organized, translated, and ready for long-term reference. Scan pages, extract text on device, translate document text, keep documents sorted by folders and tags, and export clean PDFs without sending your files through a proprietary server.

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Overview

Pitot is a local-first document scanner built around a private document vault. It is designed for the important records people need to keep long term: passports, driver's licenses, IDs, forms, and paper files that should be easy to find again later.

The app starts with a document vault: recent scans, folders, tags, search, and quick camera capture. Behind that surface, Pitot keeps source images, OCR text, generated PDFs, translations, annotations, and indexes inside the device-first vault.

What you can do with it

Start a smart scan from the home screen and capture single or multi-page documents.
Use crop detection, perspective correction, and image cleanup to produce cleaner pages.
Extract text locally for searchable documents and page-level indexes.
Keep passports, driver's licenses, IDs, forms, and other important records together.
Translate extracted document text while keeping the original scan in place.
Organize scans with folders, tags, recent documents, and quick search.
Use planned private sync to access your document vault through your own iCloud or Google Drive account across supported devices.
Export documents as PDFs and use local PDF tools for page-level operations.

How your data is stored

Pitot is designed to work without a DeadStick-operated backend. Documents, page images, OCR results, translations, and generated PDFs stay in the local document vault by default. Private sync through the user's own iCloud or Google Drive storage is planned as a provider-specific boundary rather than a proprietary Pitot server.

Security measures

Important documents deserve a calm, predictable data path. Pitot is built around practical safeguards that reduce where your documents need to travel and who can see them.

Documents stay local by default. Scans, page images, OCR text, translations, search indexes, and generated PDFs live in the local vault unless you choose an export or future private sync path.
No proprietary Pitot document server. Local scanning and storage do not require a DeadStick-operated backend that receives or recovers your documents.
On-device OCR and search indexes. Searchable text is created and stored with the device-first document record, keeping lookup fast without making a remote indexing service part of the workflow.
File-backed assets use SHA-256 content identity. Large page assets are kept outside metadata storage and addressed by content hash so the vault can track page files deterministically.
Path and symlink escape checks. The local asset store rejects unsafe paths that try to leave the vault root before loading, saving, or deleting files.
Optional app unlock controls. Pitot is designed to support Face ID, biometrics, or a Pitot PIN stored in the device keychain for people who want an extra unlock step before opening the vault.

Platform

Coming soon: iOS 18 or later.
Planned: Android, with native Kotlin and Google Drive private app-data storage support.

Release channel

Pitot is in active development. The first public release will focus on local scanning, long-term document storage, search, OCR, document translation, and PDF export before private sync and advanced document tools roll out in later updates.