Scan to PDF
Turn photos and camera captures into clean, scanned PDF documents in your browser. Auto-contrast, corner crop, and combine pages with zero uploads.
Your pictures stay in your browser.
Shortcuts: Ctrl+Enter run · Ctrl+Shift+C copy result · / search (use ⌘ on Mac)
Next steps
Done here? Use the Send to… menu on the result to carry it on to Images to PDF or Image to Text (OCR).
Free Online Scan to PDF
Scan paper with your phone camera or turn photos of it into one tidy PDF. Turn and crop the pictures, make the writing clearer, and download. Nothing leaves your device. Take photos of paper pages with your phone camera, or pick pictures. The tool improves the contrast, lets you turn the pages and makes one PDF.
How to scan a document
Press Take a photo (or drop photos in the box) for each page, in order. Choose how to clean them up, and press Create PDF. Use the arrows to change the page order and Turn to rotate a page.
Tips for a good scan
Lay the page flat in good light, photograph it from straight above, and choose "Better contrast" for colour pages or "Black and white" for plain text. "Find the page automatically" cuts away the table around a light sheet of paper.
Common mistakes
- Photographing at an angle or in shadow: the tool cannot straighten pages or remove shadows. Take the photo from straight above.
- Using Black and white for photos or stamps: they turn into black blobs. Use Better contrast for those.