Scan to PDF
Take photos of your pages, or choose photos you have. Each page is found, straightened and cleaned up, then they become one PDF, made on your device.
Runs pdf-lib in your browser, a 213.6 KB download the first time you make a PDF. Open-source licenses
How to scan a document to PDF
Select Take a photo to open your phone's camera, or choose photos you already have. Add as many pages as you need.
Check each page's corners. The page's edges are found for you; drag a corner onto the paper's corner, or select it and move it with the arrow keys.
Pick a filter and a page size, put the pages in order, then select Make PDF.
Straight pages from tilted photos
A page photographed at an angle shows as a slanted shape. Its four corners mark the page, and it is stretched back into a rectangle, as a flatbed scanner would see it.
When the page's edges cannot be found, for example a white page on a white desk, the whole photo is used and you can set the corners yourself. A darker surface behind the page helps.
Original, gray or black and white
Original keeps the photo's colours. Gray shows every page in shades of gray.
Black and white evens out shadows and uneven light first, then makes the text black and the paper white, which is easiest to read and print.
Page size
Each page goes on its own A4 (210 × 297 mm) or US Letter (8.5 × 11 in) page, turned to the page's shape, scaled to fit and centred.
Your photos never leave your device
The camera opens through your browser's own photo picker, so this page never sees a video stream and never asks for camera access.
The photos are read and the PDF is made in your browser. No photo, page or file name is sent to us or to anyone else.
Related tools
- JPG to PDF: Put JPG photos into one PDF, on A4 or US Letter pages.
- Merge PDF: Join several files into one, in the order you choose.
- Compress PDF: Make a file smaller, or at or under a size you type.
- Rotate PDF: Turn every page, or only some, the right way up.
- PNG to PDF: Put PNG images into one PDF, on A4 or US Letter pages.
- Split PDF: Save pages or ranges of a file as new files.