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How to Scan Documents to PDF with Your Camera Free

Use your phone or webcam to scan pages into a PDF, all in the browser.

How it works

Allow the camera, capture each page, and build one PDF. On a phone the back camera is used by default.

Auto-crop

It trims the background around a bright page. It does not straighten tilted or curved pages; hold the camera square above the page.

If the camera is blocked

You will see a message and can choose photos from your device instead.

Tips

  • Use good light and a dark background.
  • Run OCR PDF afterwards to make the text searchable.

Privacy

Frames stay in this tab. Nothing is uploaded.