Free Online Document Scanner — Photo to PDF, No App
Turn a photo of a document into a clean, straightened, scanned PDF — right in your browser. No app, no upload, no watermark.
Drop an image here or click to choose
photograph a document, then drag the 4 corners to its edges — nothing is uploaded
A photo of a document is not a scan: it is tilted, the edges are skewed, there is a shadow across one corner and the table is visible around it. This tool turns that photo into a flat, straight, clean page and saves it as a PDF.
Drop the photo and drag the four dots onto the corners of the paper. The tool corrects the perspective, so the page becomes a true rectangle as if it had been on a flatbed scanner, and then enhances it. Choose colour, greyscale or a black-and-white scan look, which gives the crisp text-on-white result offices expect. Add more photos and they become further pages of the same PDF.
Scanner apps typically upload your documents, add a watermark and ask for a subscription. Here the correction runs in your browser, which is how it should be for contracts, IDs and receipts: nothing is uploaded and there is no watermark. For the best result, photograph the page on a darker surface in even light and keep all four corners in the frame.
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Frequently asked questions
- How is this different from CamScanner and other apps?
- Those apps upload your documents to their servers, add watermarks and push subscriptions. PixThru scans everything on your device — your document is never uploaded, and it's completely free.
- How does it work?
- Take a photo of your document, drag the 4 corners onto its edges, and we straighten the perspective and enhance it into a clean scan. Add more pages and export a single PDF.
- Is anything uploaded?
- No. The perspective correction and enhancement run entirely in your browser — ideal for contracts, IDs and receipts.
- Can I scan a multi-page document?
- Yes. After the first page, drop the next photo and it is added as a new page. When you are done, download one PDF with all pages.
- Can I make the text in the scan selectable?
- The PDF contains the page as an image. To get the text out, run the page through the Image to Text tool on this site.
Guides
- PDF to Word without uploading: what converts well, what does not, and how to check Converting a contract or a report to Word should not mean sending it to a stranger's server. What an in-browser PDF to Word conversion keeps (text, headings, bold, images), what it flattens (tables), what it cannot read (scans), and a checklist for the result.
- What your photos reveal: EXIF, GPS location, and how to strip it before sharing Every phone photo carries a hidden record: where it was taken, when, on which device, sometimes a thumbnail of the uncropped original. Which apps strip it, which do not, how to check a photo, and how to share a clean copy.
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🔒 Your files are processed on your device. This tool runs entirely in your browser — nothing is uploaded.