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Scan to PDF

Photograph paper pages with your camera and get one straightened, searchable PDF.

Also called: camera to PDF, phone scanner, scan paper

Scan with your camera

Each page’s edges are found and straightened. No account needed.

Open the cameraOr choose photos

Without an account, your photos never leave your device. How?

How to scan to PDF

  1. Open the camera, or choose photos you already took.

  2. Take a photo of each page. Its edges are found and straightened.

  3. Review the pages, then create the PDF. It opens in this tab, ready to download.

Questions

Is it free to scan to PDF?

Yes. It’s free and needs no account. It runs in your web browser, with nothing to install.

Are my photos uploaded?

No, not without an account. Your photos are taken and made into a PDF in this browser tab, and never sent to our server. Text recognition runs in this tab too. The first time you use it, it downloads its program and language files from our server, and your browser keeps them. Your pages stay here.

Is there a file size limit?

Not as a guest. Your file never reaches our server, so the only limit is what your device can handle. With a free account, each PDF kept in your library can be up to 100 MB.

Can I scan to PDF on my phone?

Yes. It works in the web browser on a phone, a tablet or a computer. On a phone it opens the back camera. Without a camera, choose photos instead.

Can I search the scanned PDF?

Yes. Recognise text is on by default: each page is read and its words are written under it, so the new PDF can be searched and copied.

See the limits of a free account, and what stays on your device.

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