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Scan to PDF
Scan documents with your phone's camera into one PDF: each page found, straightened and cleaned as you take it. Free, with no account or uploads.
Or drop photos of pages you have taken
Each photo of a sheet is found, straightened and cleaned, and becomes a page in the order you choose.
- JPEG
- PNG
- HEIC
- WebP
- AVIF
- GIF
- TIFF
- BMP
- JPEG XL
Stays on your device · up to 300 pictures
What you can do
- As many pictures as you likeUp to 300 in one PDF: JPEG, HEIC from an iPhone, PNG, WebP and more, each upright as it was taken.
- Pages in the order you wantDrag them, turn them, copy or take them out, or sort them by name or date. Every change can be undone.
- A4, Letter or the picture's own shapeWith or without a margin, and a JPEG can go in exactly as it came, with nothing lost.
- Nothing is uploadedPictures are read and the PDF is written in your browser, and it works offline.
Scan with the camera to photograph pages one after another: each is found, straightened and made to look scanned as it is taken.
A little help along the way
Follow these steps. Every option is explained underneath, and nothing you add leaves your device.
- Add your picturesDrop up to 300 pictures, choose them, paste one with ⌘V or Ctrl+V, or try the sample. JPEG, HEIC from an iPhone, PNG, WebP, AVIF, GIF, TIFF, BMP and JPEG XL all work. The maker opens in its own window.
- Put the pages in orderThe pages are on the right. Drag one to move it, or its grip on a touch screen. Click a page to look at it large; ⌘ or Ctrl chooses several and Shift a run, to move, turn, copy or take out together. Put in order sorts them by name or by date.
- Or scan with the cameraPress Scan with the camera, point the phone at a page and press the shutter, or leave Auto on and hold still. Each photo becomes a page at once, straightened and cleaned. The browser asks once to use the camera; nothing is installed or uploaded.
- Straighten photos of paperWhen a photo holds a sheet of paper, the maker finds its edges and offers to straighten it: the page is cut out, made flat and given its true shape. Press Crop and straighten to move the corners yourself, with a magnifier as you drag or the arrow keys.
- Make it look scannedChoose a look for the page: Auto makes the paper white and takes shadows out, Greyscale does the same without colour, and Black and white keeps only the ink, for the smallest file. Give every page the same look with one press.
- Turn what lies on its sidePhotos are shown upright as the camera recorded them. Turn any page left or right with the buttons under it or the R key.
- Say what your pictures areUnder PDF, choose Documents (the usual: sharp and a smaller file) or Photos (each kept as it came, on a page of its own shape), then the page size: Fit the photo, A4, Letter or Legal. If an email or a form has a limit, turn on “Must be under a size?”. Which way up, the margin and the exact quality are under More options.
- Make the PDFPress Make PDF. The file is opened again and checked against the pages you saw before it is offered. Download it, read it in the window, or open it in the PDF editor to sign it, add page numbers or make its words searchable.
Questions people ask
- Do I need to install an app to scan?
- No. Open this page in your phone's browser and press Scan with the camera. The browser asks once for the camera, and nothing is installed or uploaded.
- How are pages straightened?
- The edges of the sheet are found in each photo, the page is cut out and made flat, and its true shape is worked out from the perspective. You can move the corners yourself if it missed.
- Can it take the photo by itself?
- Yes. With Auto on, a photo is taken when the sheet has been held still for about a second, and the next one only once you have moved on to another page.
- What if my browser cannot show the camera?
- The phone's own camera opens instead, one photo at a time, and each photo is straightened and cleaned in the same way.
This page is the PDF maker, opened for this one job; every other tool it has is one press away. Each of its settings is explained on the PDF maker's own page.
Read the step-by-step guide