Phone Document Scanner
Photograph each page, let the edges straighten themselves, and save everything as one PDF.
Drop your file hereTap to choose a file
or click to browse, or paste from the clipboard
Edges found and straightened
Each photo is checked for the outline of the page. The four corners are placed for you and the page is flattened into a clean rectangle, even when the photo was taken at an angle. Drag any corner to correct it.
Many pages, one PDF
Add up to 30 pages from your phone camera, your photo library or the live camera. Reorder them, rotate them, delete the bad ones and save everything as a single PDF at the scan's own shape, A4 or US Letter.
Stays on your device
The photos are opened and processed inside your browser and the PDF is built there. Nothing is uploaded, which matters for IDs, bank papers, contracts and medical documents.
How to scan paper documents to a PDF
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Select Take a photo, Choose photos or Use live camera and add each page.
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Check the corners on each page and drag any that are off; pick a look and rotate if needed.
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Put the pages in order with the arrow buttons and delete any you do not want.
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Choose the page size and quality, select Save PDF, then Download PDF.
What people use this tool for
- Send a signed form, a bill or an ID copy as one tidy PDF instead of loose photos.
- Digitize receipts and warranty cards before the paper fades or gets lost.
- Scan class notes, worksheets or pages from a book to share with a study group.
- Capture a multi-page contract on the spot when there is no scanner nearby.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do I scan a document with my phone?
Open this page on your phone and select Take a photo. Photograph the page, and it is added with its edges already marked. Repeat for each page, check the corners and the straightened preview, then select Save PDF and Download PDF. No app needs to be installed.
Are my documents uploaded?
No. Photos are read by your browser on your own device, straightened and cleaned up there, and the PDF is created there too. Nothing is sent to our server. The pages are held only in the page's memory and are gone when you close or leave it, so download the PDF before you go.
The edges were not found. What should I do?
Edge detection needs the paper to stand out from what is behind it. Put the page on a darker, plain surface such as a desk or a book cover, keep all four corners in the picture and avoid strong shadows across the edge. If the corners are still off, drag each one onto the page's real corner, or select Use whole photo to keep the picture as it is. Find edges again retries the detection.
What do the Look options do?
Enhanced, the default, evens out uneven lighting and turns the paper background white while keeping colors, which suits most documents. Black and white makes crisp two-tone pages for printed text and gives the smallest files. Grayscale removes color only. Original leaves the photo untouched, which is best for photographs and artwork.
What is the difference between Take a photo, Choose photos and Use live camera?
Take a photo opens your phone's own camera app, which gives the sharpest picture because it uses the camera's full resolution; on a computer it opens a file chooser. Choose photos adds pictures you already have, several at once. Use live camera shows the camera inside the page so you can capture page after page quickly, at the lower resolution a browser video stream provides.
Which page size and quality should I choose?
Fit to scan makes each PDF page the same shape as the scanned sheet, which is right for receipts and odd sizes. A4 and US Letter center each scan on a standard sheet for printing. High quality keeps up to 2,400 pixels on the longer side of each page and is the default; Standard keeps 1,600 pixels and produces a noticeably smaller file for email.
Can I search or copy the text in the scanned PDF?
Not straight away: a scan is a picture of the page. To make the text searchable and selectable, run the saved PDF through PDF OCR afterwards, which adds an invisible text layer in English or Arabic without changing how the pages look. PDF OCR takes up to 20 pages at a time, so split a longer scan first.
What are the limits?
Up to 30 pages per PDF, from JPG, PNG or WebP photos of up to 40 MB and 80 megapixels each. Very large photos are reduced to 2,600 pixels on the longer side before processing so that phones do not run out of memory. For more than 30 pages, save one PDF, start another, and join them with Merge PDF.