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Notes from building Catadoc.

Paperwork, privacy, and the engineering in between.

The document scanner that admits when it is wrong

No reader of paper is perfect. Catadoc shows nothing rather than guessing, lets you fix any fact in one tap, and learns your shops on the device.

31 July 2026 · 4 min read

Your documents never leave your phone. Here is how to check.

Catadoc understands documents on the device. No accounts, no telemetry, and a privacy claim you can verify yourself in airplane mode.

25 July 2026 · 4 min read

One PDF under 2 MB: the visa-portal problem, solved offline

Embassy portals want one PDF under a size limit. Most people solve it by uploading their passports to random websites. Here is the offline way.

21 July 2026 · 3 min read

Why we built Catadoc

The paper made it into the phone. Its meaning did not. Why we built an on-device document brain instead of another scanner.

18 July 2026 · 2 min read