A first look at Lectra, our iPad app
Lectra's early build focused on Apple Pencil PDF annotation, a document vault, local-first persistence, flattened export, and direct Scope handoff.
- Published
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- Engineering
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Lectra is the Apple Pencil-first iPad app we're building as part of the Scope ecosystem. The goal is to make PDF annotation fast and natural on iPad while keeping a reliable workflow between iPad and desktop. The current build includes:
- A Pencil-first PDF editor with pen, highlighter, eraser, and lasso tools, plus adjustable stroke controls
- A document vault with folders, search, recents, and grid/list browsing
- PDF and image import, including blank documents for scratch work
- A local-first annotation pipeline with on-device persistence and flattened PDF export
- Direct handoff to the Scope extension on desktop, with upload status tracking
- Optional cloud backup with iCloud-aware fallback behavior