Scan & clean-up
Scan with your camera
Turn photos of pages into a clean PDF: the page is found and straightened, cropped, and brightened, with a choice of colour, grey or black and white. Photos are processed on your device and never uploaded.
or drop them here
Photos stay on this device. Nothing is uploaded.
How it works
- 1Take photos of your pages, or choose photos you already have.
- 2Check that the four corners sit on each page. Drag them if not.
- 3Choose the look and make the PDF.
Your file stays on this device
PDF Tools does the work inside your browser. Your file isn't uploaded or stored, and the site is technically blocked from sending it anywhere.
See how to check it yourselfGood to know
- Photograph the page on a plain, darker surface in good light, with the whole page in view.
- On a phone, Take a photo opens the camera. On a computer it opens the file chooser.
- Straightening works for flat pages. Curled or folded pages will still look bent.
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- Clean up a scanEven out the lighting and whiten the paper of a scanned PDF.
- Straighten a scanFix crooked pages in a scanned PDF automatically.
- Remove blank pagesFind and delete empty pages, such as the backs of scanned sheets.
- Screenshots to PDFCombine screenshots into one PDF, in the order you choose.