Scan Documents to PDF Online, Free
Turn photos of pages into a clean, small PDF
🔒 No upload • No account • No watermark • Runs in your browser
Scan to PDF turns photos of paper pages into a tidy PDF. Take pictures with your phone or choose existing ones, pick a scan style, and combine them into one file.
How to use Scan to PDF
- Open the tool, then tap Take photo or choose pictures from your device.
- Add more pages and reorder them with the arrows.
- Pick Colour, Grayscale or Black & white.
- Press Create scan PDF and download scan.pdf.
Features
- Camera capture on phones.
- Brightens paper and darkens ink in grayscale and black & white modes.
- Adaptive black & white that copes with uneven lighting.
- Smaller files than raw photos. Nothing is uploaded.
Good to know
- This does not detect page edges or straighten tilted photos. Take the picture straight on, on a plain dark background.
- The result is made of images. To make the text selectable and searchable, run OCR PDF on it afterwards.
Questions and answers
Does it crop the page automatically?
No. Frame the page well when you take the photo, or use Crop PDF afterwards.
Which style is smallest?
Black & white is usually the smallest, and is best for text pages.
Does it work on a computer?
Yes. Choose image files instead of using the camera.
Privacy
This tool runs inside your browser. Your file is read into your device’s memory, processed there and handed back as a download. It is not sent to a FirePDF server. You can test this by switching off your internet connection after the page has loaded and running the tool again. Read the Privacy Policy and the Security page for details.