Document Scanner
100% privatePhotograph bills and pages; get a clean, searchable PDF. Everything happens on this device — nothing is uploaded.
Not sure? Keep Photocopy — the crisp black-and-white look of a real scan, and the smallest file to send.
Advanced options
A long receipt forced onto A4 ends up as a thin strip with wide white margins, so Automatic keeps its own shape.
Small keeps a black-and-white page around 50 KB. Higher settings are sharper and several times larger.
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Your recent scans
Your last 10 scans, kept in this browser so you can share one again later. They are never uploaded, nobody else can see them, and clearing this site’s data in your browser removes them too.
Nothing here yet. The next PDF you make will appear here.
Step by step
How to scan a document to PDF with your phone
Four steps, no app to install and no account — and a result that looks like it came out of a photocopier, not a camera.
Photograph the page
Press Scan with camera and your phone’s own camera opens. Put the bill on a table darker than the paper, keep the whole page in the frame, and take the photo. On a computer, press Choose photos or drop pictures onto the box.
Check the edges
The page is found, cropped and straightened automatically. If it picked the wrong rectangle, tap the page and drag the four corners onto the paper. A magnifier appears under your finger so you can be exact.
Add more pages
Press Add page for the next one. Pages can be moved, turned and deleted. Pick a look — Photocopy for the classic black-and-white scan, Clean colour when a stamp or signature matters.
Make the PDF and share it
Press Make PDF. The text on every page is read so the PDF is searchable, then Share PDF opens your phone’s share sheet — WhatsApp, Gmail, Drive — with the file attached.
Private by design
Why this scanner can’t leak your bills
The things people scan are the things they least want copied: bank letters, medical bills, rent agreements, ID cards. Most scanner apps want an account and offer to “back up” every page to their cloud; most scanner websites upload the photo to process it. This one does neither, and you can check that yourself.
Zero uploads
Finding the page, straightening it, cleaning it up and reading its text all happen in your browser, on your phone. Your photos and the PDF never enter a network request, so there is no copy anywhere for us to keep, lose or be asked to hand over.
Kept only where you can see it
Your last 10 scans are saved in this browser so you can share one again — on this device, nowhere else. Untick Keep my scans on this device and nothing is stored at all; Delete all removes what is there.
No account, no watermark
No sign-up, no email address, no page limit, no “Scanned with…” footer stamped on your document, and no paid tier that unlocks the feature you actually needed.
To be precise about what does leave your device — because “100% private” is easy to say and worth checking. Three things, none of them your document:
1. The first time you make a PDF, the text reader (about 4 MB) downloads from this website and is kept by your browser, so later scans don’t fetch it again. It is the same file for everyone; nothing about your pages goes the other way.
2. When a PDF is finished, this page sends one anonymous message to our counter saying “document-scanner was used”. No photo, no text, no file name, no page count, nothing identifying you.
3. Google Analytics records the page view and that a scan happened, as on every page of this site — with counts and settings only (how many pages, the look and quality you chose, whether the text could be read), never the contents. You can block it and the scanner works exactly the same.
Your photos, the PDF and the text read from it are in none of these. Turn off your wifi after your first scan, reload this page and scan another bill. It still works. No upload-based scanner can pass that test.
At a glance
Tool specifications
| Input | A photo from your phone’s camera, or JPG, PNG, WebP, HEIC (iPhone) or AVIF pictures |
|---|---|
| Output | One PDF of all pages, searchable; or the pages as JPG/PNG images |
| Looks | Photocopy (black & white), Clean colour, Greyscale, Original |
| Edge detection | Automatic, with a corner editor and magnifier to correct it |
| Text recognition (OCR) | English, on every page; makes the PDF searchable and the text copyable |
| Page size | Automatic (A4 for pages, true shape for receipts), A4 or US Letter |
| Typical file size | About 50 KB a page in Photocopy at Small quality; 150–300 KB in colour |
| Pages per PDF | Up to 60; a warning above 30, which gets slow on a phone |
| Where processing happens | In your browser, on your device — nothing is uploaded |
| Works offline | Yes, after your first scan (which downloads the text reader once), including as an installed app |
| Sign-up / watermark | None / none |
| Price | Free |
Questions
Scanning documents, answered
Are my photos or my PDF uploaded anywhere?
Is it as good as Adobe Scan or CamScanner?
What does “searchable PDF” mean?
Does it work on an iPhone?
Will WhatsApp or email accept the PDF?
Where are my recent scans kept, and how do I delete them?
It cropped the wrong part of my photo. How do I fix it?
Do I need to sign up or pay?
Keep it handy
Put it on your home screen, or tell us what’s missing
Use it like an app
Add it to your phone’s home screen — it gets its own Scanner icon, opens straight into the scanner, works offline, and has no account behind it. Or bookmark it.
Something not right?
If a page was cropped wrong, the black-and-white came out too dark or too faint, or the text it read was poor, tell us. The form opens with the tool already filled in, so you only have to describe what happened.
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