Scan, OCR & extraction
Scan Documents to PDF
Photograph your sheets with your phone camera (or import photos), straighten them by their four corners, clean up the background and get a crisp multi-page PDF.
How to use this tool
- 1
Open the camera and take your pages, or import your photos.
- 2
Adjust the four corners onto the edges of the sheet.
- 3
Choose the enhancement (colour, grayscale, black and white) and the page size.
- 4
Create the multi-page PDF and download it.
Help
- Take each page with the rear camera or import photos you already took: the tool looks for the sheet and places four corners you adjust with a finger or the mouse. On a phone, the file picker also offers the camera.
- Straightening flattens a page shot at an angle; enhancement removes shadows and uneven lighting and gives sharp colour, grayscale or true black and white, which is lighter for text.
- Rotate, reorder or delete pages, then pick A4, Letter or each photo's own size, the resolution and the JPEG quality to keep the file reasonable. Up to 40 pages per PDF.
- Limits: this is a photo, not a scanner. Sheet detection is a help, not a certainty, and the PDF's text is not selectable (the pages are images): run “OCR PDF” afterwards if you want to search it. HEIC support depends on your browser.
Frequently asked questions
Sheet detection gets it wrong. What can I do?
It works best with a light sheet on a darker, plain background. Otherwise just drag the four handles; the keyboard arrows move them too, and Shift speeds the step up.
Will my PDF be heavy?
Not necessarily: use the economy or standard resolution and a JPEG quality around 70%. Black and white gives the lightest files for printed text.
Are my photos sent anywhere?
No. The camera, straightening, enhancement and PDF creation all run in your browser. The image is kept nowhere and you can switch the camera off at any time.
Written and verified by the MaxyTools team · Updated on
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