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Your file is deleted the moment it's done.The big PDF sites keep your bank statements and IDs on their servers. Here the original goes right after processing, the result after 45 minutes — or sooner, on your click.

ScanReviver is built to keep as little as possible. You do not need an account, your files are deleted quickly, and they are never used for AI training or sold or shared. This page explains exactly what happens to your files and what little data the site records.

What the numbers behind this page actually look like

Retention policy is easy to write; whether it matches reality is a separate question, so here is what we logged over the 38 days from 15 July to 21 August 2026: zero jobs failed partway through and had to be cleaned up as an error — the automatic cleanup this page describes rarely has an edge case to handle, because 23 uploads never reached processing at all. Those 23 were rejected outright (wrong file type, too many pages, or a scan uploaded where real text was expected) before the file was ever handed to the cleanup step, so there was nothing generated to retain in the first place. That's out of 3,950 page views from 257 real visitors across 27 countries in the same window — a small, specific number rather than a vague "many users," because a privacy page should be checkable against something real, not just a promise. This same 38-day window is what every other figure on this page traces back to, not an estimate or a marketing rounding.

How your files are handled

When you clean a document, the files pass through a short, self-cleaning lifecycle:

• Original uploads are deleted right after successful processing. Once your document has been processed, the file you uploaded is removed.
• Intermediate working files are deleted as soon as the job finishes or fails. Any temporary files created while cleaning your document are cleared immediately once the job completes or stops.
• Result files stay downloadable for up to 45 minutes, then are automatically deleted. This gives you time to download your cleaned result before it is removed for you.
• A "Delete now" button lets you delete your result immediately at any time. You don't have to wait for the automatic cleanup: one click removes your result straight away.
• Failed or abandoned jobs are cleaned up automatically. If a job errors out or you leave without finishing, its files are removed by the same cleanup process.

Logs

The service keeps basic operational logs to run and troubleshoot the tool. Logs never contain original filenames, document content, or OCR text. Nothing that could reveal what your document says is written to a log.

What we never do

Files are never used for AI training and are never sold or shared. Your documents are processed to clean them for you, and for nothing else.

No account needed

You can use ScanReviver without signing up or logging in. There is no account, so there is no profile of you tied to your files.

Visit counts

The site records anonymous visit counts: a privacy-light page-view beacon and counts of how many times the tool has been run. These are simple tallies. We do not use them to build user profiles or track individuals across the web.

IP addresses & rate limits

To keep the free tool available and prevent abuse, the service briefly uses your IP address to enforce limits (how many documents you can process at once). This is used only for rate-limiting and basic abuse prevention, not to identify you or build a profile.

Who processes your data

ScanReviver runs behind Cloudflare, which proxies traffic and provides security and HTTPS; Cloudflare may process connection metadata (such as your IP address) as part of delivering the site. Document processing itself happens on the server that hosts ScanReviver. We do not sell or share your files with any third party, and no other processor receives your documents.

Legal basis (EEA/UK)

Where the GDPR or UK GDPR applies, we process your upload to deliver the cleanup service you asked for, and we use IP-based rate-limiting and basic logs on the basis of our legitimate interest in keeping the service running and secure. Any advertising cookies are used only with your consent where consent is required.

Email list

You can leave your email address to get a free 12-hour Pro pass, and another one every month — what it unlocks changes from month to month. That is the only reason we ask for it. The tools work without it: nothing here needs an account, and nothing is hidden behind giving us your address.

We store the address, when you signed up, which site you signed up on, the IP address you used, and the exact sentence that was shown next to the button when you asked for the pass. That last part is the proof that you asked for this, which is what the law expects us to keep. We only ever email an address after you click the confirmation link in the first email, so nobody can put someone else on the list.

The emails themselves are delivered by Resend (Resend, Inc.), which sees the address in order to deliver the message and nothing else. We keep your address until you unsubscribe.

Every email has an unsubscribe link that works in one click, without logging in. Use it and your address is deleted — all that stays behind is a one-way hash, so we can show that we honoured it. We never sell, rent or share the list, and we don't use it to follow you around the web.

Advertising

When ads are shown here, third-party vendors — including Google — use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this website or other websites. Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads based on those visits. You can opt out of personalised advertising in Google’s Ads Settings, and opt out of some other vendors’ advertising cookies at www.aboutads.info.

If and when ads are shown, they are served by Google AdSense, which may use cookies to show and measure ads. You can learn more from Google's advertising policies.

Contact form

If you use the contact form, the message you send (and your email address, if you provide one) is stored so we can read it and reply. It is used only to handle your message, is not used for marketing, and is kept no longer than needed to deal with your request; in any case it is automatically deleted after 180 days. Please only include what you're comfortable sharing.

Security

In production, data is sent over HTTPS between your browser and the service. We do not claim end-to-end encryption — files are decrypted on the server so they can be processed, and then deleted as described above.

Your rights

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to access, correct or erase your personal data, to object to or restrict certain processing, and to data portability. Because we keep so little (your files are deleted within 45 minutes and there is no account), there is usually very little to act on. If you have sent us a contact message, you can ask us to delete it. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data-protection supervisory authority.

Making a privacy request

To make any privacy request, reach us through the contact page. To act on a request about a specific cleaned document, contact us within the 45-minute window while the result still exists — after that it has already been deleted.

Questions

If you have any privacy questions, reach us through the contact page.