Scan to PDF
Capture documents with your camera into a PDF.
How to use Scan to PDF
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Open your camera
Allow camera access and point your phone or laptop at the document you want to capture.
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Capture each page
Take a photo of every page in turn; each one is added to a growing multi-page document as you go.
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Enhance and save
Optionally apply a black-and-white document clean-up, then download all your captures as a single PDF.
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About Scan to PDF
Use your phone or laptop camera to capture documents straight into a multi-page PDF, with an optional black-and-white document enhancement.
Turn your camera into a document scanner
A dedicated scanner isn't always to hand, but a camera almost always is. Scan to PDF uses your phone or laptop camera to capture documents directly into a PDF, so you can digitise a signed form, a receipt, a handwritten note or a printed letter wherever you happen to be. Each page you photograph is added to a single growing document, which means a multi-page contract or a stack of receipts becomes one tidy file rather than a folder full of loose image files that are awkward to send.
Because the whole thing runs in the browser, there's no app to install and no account to create — you open the page, allow the camera, and start capturing. That makes it a genuinely quick option when someone needs a document "as a PDF" and all you have is the paper in front of you.
Cleaner results, and keeping captures private
A raw phone photo of a page rarely looks like a proper scan: the lighting is uneven, the paper looks grey, and the file is larger than it needs to be. The optional black-and-white document enhancement fixes that by boosting contrast and flattening the background, so text stands out crisply and the page reads as a clean scanned document rather than a casual snapshot. It's the difference between a photo you'd be reluctant to send and one that looks professional in an email or an application.
Everything is processed on your device, which matters because the documents people scan — IDs, bank letters, medical forms — are often exactly the kind you wouldn't want uploaded to a stranger's server. There's no watermark on the result and no sign-up, and once you're done you have a single searchable-ready PDF; if the pages are photos of text and you later need to select or search that text, the OCR PDF tool can add a text layer. And because captures build up page by page, you can retake a shot that came out blurry before saving, so the finished document is clean the first time.
Questions
Everything runs in your browser. How we keep files private
Do I need a real scanner to use this?
No. It turns your device's camera into a document scanner, so a phone or laptop webcam is all you need to capture pages straight into a PDF.
What does the black-and-white enhancement do?
It converts a colour photo of a page into a high-contrast document image, which sharpens text, flattens uneven lighting, and produces a cleaner, smaller result that looks more like a real scan than a snapshot.
Can I scan more than one page into a single PDF?
Yes. Capture as many pages as you like and they're collected into one multi-page document, so a whole form or contract becomes a single file.
Are my captured pages uploaded anywhere?
No. Photos are captured and assembled into a PDF entirely in your browser, so your documents never leave your device.
Part of: Photo, signature & PDF for exam and job forms
Make your photo, signature and documents fit the form's exact limits.
- Resize a photo or signature to an exact KB sizeHit 20 KB, 50 KB or any limit exactly, with optional exact pixel dimensions. Shows the verified final size.
- Assemble a job or college application into one PDFCombine resume, certificates and ID in order, then check the size and searchable-text status against the portal's limit.
- Assemble visa, loan or KYC documents in the required orderOrder the documents the way the form expects, merge them, and compress to fit the cap in one step.