Scan a document to PDF.
Point your camera at the document, capture each page, download a clean A4 PDF. The camera feed stays on your device — never recorded, never uploaded.
Open your network tab while it runs: zero requests. Your document stays yours.
How to scan a document with your camera
- Open the camera — your browser asks for camera permission — the feed is only displayed locally, never recorded or transmitted.
- Capture each page — line the page up and tap the shutter. Capture as many pages as the document has; remove and retake any capture.
- Save as PDF — your captures become a clean A4 PDF, built on your device and downloaded instantly.
You can also add existing photos of a document from your library instead of using the camera — same pipeline, same privacy. It runs on the same in-browser engine as our PDF merger, PDF splitter, and PDF to Markdown converter — the file never leaves your machine.
Scanning to PDF, honestly answered
No. The feed renders in your browser tab only. When you tap the shutter, a single frame is captured into memory on your device; the PDF is built there and downloaded. Nothing is transmitted.
That's the standard browser prompt any page must show to use the camera at all. It grants access to this tab only, and you can revoke it any time from the address bar.
Yes — 'Add photos' accepts images from your library and puts them through the same local pipeline.
Not yet — captures are used as shot. Line the page up in the frame for best results. Edge detection is on the honest to-do list, not the feature list.
Yes — free, no account, no page limit.
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- Every tool on this site, running natively on your device
- Fully offline — files never even touch a browser tab
- Batch-process whole folders of documents locally
The native apps will be a one-time paid upgrade when they launch — everything in the browser stays free, always.